| Jan. 8, 2007 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Eastman House explores war and the photograph with exhibition
Know War
Images from collection span 1855 to current war in Afghanistan
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography and Film explores the relationship between war and the photograph
with a survey exhibition titled Know War, on view Jan. 20 through April
22, 2007.
The exhibition of more than 30 images is drawn entirely from Eastman
House's collections, depicting war from the advent of photography to the
present, featuring iconic images from 1855 — of the Crimean War, one of
the earliest images of war ever produced — to 2006 images from
Afghanistan. Other wars and conflicts depicted in the exhibition include the
Civil War, World War II, Korea, the Czech uprising, and Vietnam. The exhibition
showcases masterpieces by such photographers as Edward Steichen, George N.
Barnard, Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, David Douglas Duncan, Josef
Koudelka, Susan Meiselas, and Louie Palu. Know War is part of the
Eastman House series titled "Witness: Know War/Know Genocide."
"Almost since its invention, the camera has been used to record the most
difficult aspects of the human condition: war and its aftermath, genocide, and
famine," said Dr. Alison Nordström, Eastman House's curator of
photographs. "Today's barrage of images on television, in newspapers,
and online reminds us that things persist in the present as much as in the past.
We invite you to explore how photography and photographs make us all witnesses
to world events."
Also on view will be a documentary from the Eastman House motion picture
collection titled Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (Lynne Sachs, US
1994, 33 min.); the documentary Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi, an expansive look
into the lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq; and a documentary about
families of five young American soldiers killed in Iraq titled Never Coming Home
(Zac Barr, Andrew Lichtenstein, and Brian Storm, 2004).
For more information
For more information about
the Eastman House exhibition, lectures, or other related
programs in the community, please visit www.eastmanhouse.org or call (585)
271-3361. Admission to George Eastman House is $8 for adults; $6 for senior
citizens (60 and older); $5 for students; $3 for children (5 to 12); and free
for children 4 and under and museum members.
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