Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester
January 19–March 2, 2008
Lillie Mae Chambers, Anthony's grandmother, at the funeral and internment for
Anthony Adams, 20, at United Missionary Baptist Church and Grove Place Cemetery on
Friday, February 2, 2007. Anthony Adams was shot and killed outside a store on
Congress Ave. The police have made no arrests in the case.
Throughout 2007, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle staff photographer Will Yurman’s goal was to document the stories of the more than 50 homicide victims in the Rochester area. “Every death is a tragedy. But when someone is murdered, it is an act of violence against the victim, their family, their friends and every one of us,” says Yurman. “Homicide victims are not just statistics. They are our neighbors and our family.”
Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester, an exhibition of Yurman’s yearlong project, has been added to the Museum’s winter 2008 offerings on the topic of loss and hope in photography.
“It is critical that we recognize violence as an epidemic, both in our society and worldwide. George Eastman House is taking a lead role in encouraging a dialogue about this issue and its effect on our lives,” says Museum Director Anthony Bannon. “By presenting LOSS/HOPE exhibitions and programs about seemingly disparate topics such as the civil rights movement, early 20th-century child welfare, conflicts in the Middle East, and others, we are showing that the photograph has been and continues to be a vehicle for both understanding and change.”
Click here to become a part of the dialogue on www.democratandchronicle.com and view the exhibition's audio slide show and message board where viewers are invited to post comments.
Link to recent media coverage:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1223754§ionID=280
Related lectures and events
To open the exhibition to the community, admission to George Eastman House and related lectures and events will be free of charge on Thursday evenings, from 5 to 8 p.m., during the run of the exhibition (Jan. 24 and 31 and Feb. 7, 14, 21, and 28) and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18.
Free-admission Thursday evenings and the Monday, Feb. 18 forum are made possible by:
LOSS/HOPE
In a series of exhibitions opening throughout
winter and spring 2008, George Eastman
House focuses on the photograph’s unique
ability to take its viewers to parts of the world
they might not otherwise know or care about.
From the slums of 19th-century London, to the Depression
dust bowl, to the variety of contemporary lives in
black America and the Middle East, the series LOSS/
HOPE informs us and asks for our engagement
by considering the notion of loss, both
personally and as a result of industrialization
and poverty.
Sponsored by:
LOSS/HOPE Exhibitions:
