Greetings,

One aspect of George Eastman House's mission is to share our collections through traveling exhibitions. We are fortunate in that our photography collection has great depth and breadth encompassing the entire history of the medium. Seven of our offered exhibitions are from our collections. If you want your audiences to be aware of the history of photography, for example, Why Look at Animals? is an exhibition containing daguerreotypes, albumen, gelatin silver, and color prints. Why Look at Animals? draws from both our collection and participating contemporary artists to examine how animals have been depicted in photographs from photography's beginnings to the present time. Our collection has a significant number of images by Eugene Atget who documented Paris at the turn of the last century. Christopher Rauschenberg pays homage to Atget in his documentation of present-day Paris in the style of Atget. The work of both artists come together in Paris: Photographs by Eugene Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg. Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina is an exhibition in which the entire body of work is in our collection. Requiem not only honors fallen photojournalists of Vietnam, but also reflects the history of that war.

I hope you will take a minute to peruse the extensive exhibition offerings. As you consider our exhibitions and your programming plans, please be aware that our director Dr. Anthony Bannon and other staff members are available for lectures.

Please contact us for further information and scheduling on all the exhibitions.

Best wishes,

Jeanne Verhulst, Associate Curator of Exhibitions
George Eastman House
900 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-2298
Phone: (585) 271-3361 ext. 382
Fax: (585) 271-3970
E-mail: travex@geh.org

Exhibitions at a Glance

 

AVAILABILITY: through 2009 One Slot Available: July 12, 2008 - August 31, 2008 Seeing Ourselves Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection, a new exhibition under development, has generated national press coverage and considerable interest from the museum community... View Details  •  View PDF

	AVAILABILITY: through 2009 One slot available: May 31 - August 24, 2008 Picturing Eden The development and changing styles of the garden have been as integral to cultural points of view as art, literature, poetry, and philosophy, each intimately mirroring the subtle shifts of class and politics in changing centuries... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2010 New! Heroes of Horticulture They are the sole witnesses to some of the nation's greatest people and most significant moments. Some are hundreds of years old: the Horse Chestnut Tree that shaded suffragist Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th century; the Tree Peony specimens at Linwood Gardens; the Live Oak Tree AllŽe in Houston... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2011 New! Forty Years of Change The Rolling Stone Show George Eastman House, in partnership with Rolling Stone Magazine, presents a tour of photographs and interactive media, The Rolling Stone Show. For forty years, Rolling Stone has explored the social, political, and cultural currents of our time. This national tour celebrates... View Details  •  View PDF

 

AVAILABILITY: through 2011 New! Larry Towell The World From My Front Porch A mid-career retrospective, this exhibition explores the issues of land and landlessness in two parts. The first section reveals Towell's family and their relationship to their land in Ontario. The second section reviews Towell's work over the past twenty years documenting the crisis of human landlessness throughout the world, from Central America to the Middle East. Writes Towell, "We must address these crises in order to achieve a more stable and peaceful world." View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2010 Why Look at Animals? Why Look at Animals? examines the ways animals have been represented photographically over time, from the romantic pastoral images of P.H. Emerson, to the sardonic and edgy metaphors of John Heartfield... AVAILABILITY: through 2010 View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2011 New! State of the Blues: The Living Legend of the Delta Photographs by Jeff Dunas State of the Blues: The Living Legend of the Delta pays homage to the living legends of the Mississippi Delta blues through a series of intimate portraits. Through the luminous photography of Jeff Dunas, State of the Blues is an important exhibition... View Details  •  View PDF

 

AVAILABILITY: through 2010 Reflections from the Heart Photographs by David Seymour In 1933, David Seymour's world of photojournalism was undergoing great change. The picture story was a relatively new concept, and the recently introduced Leica camera permitted Seymour to make the informal and immediate images that magazines and their audiences eagerly consumed. Seymour, better known by his nickname, "Chim" was to record the great events of the mid-twentieth century... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2011 Under Development Not a Cornfield Not a Cornfield (NAC) is a large-scale temporary art project created by artist Lauren Bon, which transformed a derelict 32-acre industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2011 Under Development David Plowden Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography David Plowden is an artist and a visual historian who has documented the changing face of American culture. His images honor the proud structures and places that America has constructed... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2009 Paris Eugene Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg Paris is both a survey of the George Eastman House’s exemplary holdings of the work of Eugene Atget (French, 1857–1927) and a presentation of its contemporary interpretation by Portland, Oregon artist, Christopher Rauschenberg... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2009 Ghosts in the Landscape Vietnam Revisited Beginning in 1995 and visiting over a four-year period, photographer Craig J. Barber, ex-combat Marine returned to Vietnam to traverse many of his former military routes making images with an 8 x 10 pinhole camera... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2010 After 9/11 Photographs by Nathan Lyons In response to the tragic events of September 11, photographer Nathan Lyons, known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture, has created a poignant sequence of images... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2010 Pete Turner Empowered by Color Bold color and striking compositions are at the core of Pete Turner’s extraordinary vision. Critic A.D. Coleman wrote of Turner’s work, "A dramatist’s sense of event, intense and saturated coloration, and a distinct if indescribable otherness are omnipresent in Turner’s images... View Details  •  View PDF

	AVAILABILITY: through 2010 Aging in America The Years Ahead by Ed Kashi More than ten years ago, internationally acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi and writer Julie Winokur set out to document the new phenomenon of growing old in an era when the fastest growing segment of society is people over 85. They traveled from coast to coast... View Details  •  View PDF

	AVAILABILITY: through 2009 Vital Signs Focus on Young Photographers Vital Signs is a selection of young and emerging photographers who survey the world they inhabit and show us what they observe in distinctively personal visual vocabularies. Though these vocabularies differ greatly... View Details  •  View PDF

 

	AVAILABILITY: through 2011 Bernie Boston American Photojournalist For over forty years, Bernie Boston has photographed the American social and political scene. George Eastman House is honored to tour a retrospective exhibition of works by Bernie Boston. According to curator and historian Therese Mulligan, "Bernie is a witness to our times... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: through 2009 Face of Asia Steve McCurry Photographs "I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person…I guess what you’d call the human condition." For more than twenty-five years Steve McCurry has covered areas of international and civil conflict, including ... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: ongoing The Armory Wall A Tribute to September 11. Photographs by John Taylor and Dianne Dubler This exhibition can be shown in conjunction with Picturing What Matters or as a stand alone exhibition. In the days immediately following the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City, people began posting notices of missing loved ones on the long brick wall in front of the Armory building on Lexington Avenue... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: ongoing Requiem By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict were recorded as missing or dead. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and women. In many cases it includes the last photographs they took... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: ongoing In Our Time The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers Celebrating 50 years of Magnum Photos, Inc., one of the world’s most renowned photographer-owned photographic agencies, In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers represents the broad interests of 60 photographers. From images by its founding members George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour to contemporary photographers... View Details  •  View PDF

	AVAILABILITY: ongoing Let Children Be Children Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940) was a sociologist whose photographs captured his abiding concern for children, immigrants, and working-class people. A telling look at the industrialization of America... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: ongoing The Rise of a Landmark Lewis Hine and the Empire State Building From bedrock to the colossus of the Manhattan skyline, photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874–1940) documented every foot of the construction of the monumental Empire State Building. In 1930, Hine began the treacherous ascent—safety belt in place and camera in hand—with the expectation of creating an ideal portrait of modern architecture... View Details  •  View PDF

	AVAILABILITY: through 2008 Fully Booked! The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection Drawn from the world-renowned collections of George Eastman House this exhibition presents a wide-ranging selection of popular and recognized works from the history of photography. The Best of features iconic photographs such as... View Details  •  View PDF

 

AVAILABILITY: through 2008 Fully Booked! Eloquent Vistas The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection The American land, expansive and spectacular, has been a central force in shaping the American culture and forging the American character. From the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper to the majestic landscapes of Ansel Adams, it has inspired the creativity of authors and artists and captured our collective imagination... View Details  •  View PDF

AVAILABILITY: through 2008 Fully Booked! Picturing What Matters An Offering of Photographs For more than fifty years George Eastman House has collected and preserved photographs that matter to the world, to our nation, and to our community. Photographs give meaning to our lives. They shape our memory. The events of September 11, 2001, and all that has followed on screen and in print has framed anew the question of what we value as individuals, and as a society. These events compelled our institution to respond by looking at our treasures with new eyes... View Details  •  View PDF