George Eastman Museum

There is no correct or incorrect way to experience a photograph by Carl Chiarenza. He has long insisted that viewing his images is a personal and open-ended experience. Here’s Chiarenza in an interview from 2019 explaining what it is he hopes you, the viewer, might gain from looking carefully at his work: I only hope that the viewer can find her or his own something in what I make, and I have said...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid and Howard Bossen, February 21, 1978. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library and Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possi...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid and Howard Bossen, February 21, 1978. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library and Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possi...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, March 26, 1978 Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, March 26, 1978 Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, March 26, 1978 Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the...

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations e...

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations e...

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations e...

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Introduction by Ken Fox, Head of Library & Archives, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. Photo courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections/George Eastman Museum. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant nu...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. Introduction by Jamie M. Allen, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Associate Curator, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum. Recorded October 2020. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by James McQuaid, December 2, 3, and 6, 1976. This interview was produced as part of an oral history project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Any view...

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Photo courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections, George Eastman Museum. 00:03:20 Career — Working in The U.K. on FIRE OVER ENGLAND (1937) and meeting Vivien Leigh 00:09:50 Career — Freelancing outside of the studios beginning in 1948 00:17:01 Career — Making sole directorial effort GO MAN GO (1954) 00:24:00 Late career — BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (1958) 00:26:...