Larry Towell: The World From My Front Porch

February 16 through June 15, 2008

In celebration of three decades of photojournalism, George Eastman House presents a multi-media retrospective exhibition of work by the photographer Larry Towell, featuring photographs, writings, and audio recordings of original spoken words and music performances. Through an intimate perspective, Towell has captured scenes from the many political and geographical conflicts of the last thirty years. The World from My Front Porch is an exhibition that seeks to address the impact of social unrest on cultural identity.

While traveling to Central America and the Middle East, Towell documented what he calls "a crisis of landlessness... a phenomenon caused by the agro-export economy, globalization, free trade, and national building without respect for indigenous populations."

The World from My Front Porch will include photographs taken from Towell's entire porfolio including images of Mennonite migrant workers of Mexico, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, victims of Hurricane Katrina, and many other areas in social crisis. Images will also be used from a rare personal reportage of his own family in rural Ontario, Canada.

Towell's work has been published in books and major magazines such as LIFE, GEO, Stern, Elle, Esquire, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. He is the author of 10 books chronicalling his travels.

Larry Towell in Person!
Sunday, April 27, 3 to 4 p.m.
Check out the Museum blog to read about Larry Towell's visit to Eastman House!

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.
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LOSS/HOPE Exhibitions:

• Not Forgotten: Portraits of life and death in Rochester (On view January 19 through March 2)
• Black in America: Eli Reed (On view February 16 through June 29)
• Conscience The Ultimate Weapon (On view March 12 through June 1)
• Facing the Other Half (On view March 8-June 15, 2008)