George Eastman Museum

This podcast accompanies the exhibition David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire, organized by the George Eastman Museum and on view June 1st 2018 to January 1st 2019. Major support for the exhibition was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Learn more at eastman.org. The exhibition was curated by Lisa Hostetler, Curator in Charge of the...

June 14, 2012. Part of the Wish You Were Here lecture series, which brings artists and photojournalists to the Rochester to share their stories and photographs.

Meet Rachel E. Andrews, Assistant Collection Manager in the Department of Photography, and the current curator of our History of Photography rotation that features works produced by women photographers, artists, printers, and entrepreneurs. We took a few minutes to sit down with her in our cafe to learn more about how she got started working at the museum and what's she is doing now.

Meet Jared Case, Head of Collection Information, Research, and Access in the Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department, and Executive Director of the Nitrate Picture Show. We took a few minutes to sit down with him in our cafe and get to know him a little better (pardon the background noise!).

Jesse Peers, archivist in the George Eastman Legacy Collection, explores what George Eastman’s life was like a hundred years ago, through photographs and other archival documentation.

In conjunction with the exhibition Stories of Indian Cinema: Abandoned & Rescued, this talk dives into fascinating discovery of George Eastman’s bed. Please note, around 10:30 of the talk, Kathy refers to a video of the bed being moved. You can watch that video here: http://bit.ly/EastmanBed

Before electricity, early photography studios were illuminated by large skylights. Some of these historic buildings still stand, and traces of their original details remain visible. Photographic antiquarian Nick Graver has been conducting research on and providing full-day field trips to these locations for more than forty years. Join us as he takes us on a digital tour of these unique studios and...

The museum has just completed the first year of a three-year project, Making More Available: Secure and Accessible Archives, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Project staff will give an illustrated progress report and reveal some of the special items they have come across at the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library in their efforts to make archives and special collections more...

Jamie M. Allen will discuss the latest installation in the museum’s History of Photography Gallery.

Part of the Focus 45 series. For the past three years, Ellen Handy has been conducting research at the Eastman Museum for her forthcoming book, Histories of Photography: An Introduction, which draws extensively on the museum's collections. Handy states, "The George Eastman Museum is the home of the history of photography—not only because it is the home of the man who did so much to create the phot...

Early Kodak advertising is mostly associated with the iconic image of the Kodak Girl. Then in the 1930s, Eastman Kodak Company turned their advertising campaigns over to the New York advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. How did this change affect the public image of Kodak? Claudia Pretelin, art historian, will explore this era of Kodak advertising and how it created the basis for the so-called s...

Selections from three series by photographer Lucinda Devlin (American, b. 1947) are featured in this exhibition: Pleasure Ground (1977–90), Corporal Arenas (1982–98), and The Omega Suites (1991–97). Best known for The Omega Suites—precisely composed images of execution chambers in the United States—Devlin has devoted her career to exploring the relationship between our bodies and the spaces that t...

Selections from three series by photographer Lucinda Devlin (American, b. 1947) are featured in this exhibition: Pleasure Ground (1977–90), Corporal Arenas (1982–98), and The Omega Suites (1991–97). Best known for The Omega Suites—precisely composed images of execution chambers in the United States—Devlin has devoted her career to exploring the relationship between our bodies and the spaces that t...

Selections from three series by photographer Lucinda Devlin (American, b. 1947) are featured in this exhibition: Pleasure Ground (1977–90), Corporal Arenas (1982–98), and The Omega Suites (1991–97). Best known for The Omega Suites—precisely composed images of execution chambers in the United States—Devlin has devoted her career to exploring the relationship between our bodies and the spaces that t...

Selections from three series by photographer Lucinda Devlin (American, b. 1947) are featured in this exhibition: Pleasure Ground (1977–90), Corporal Arenas (1982–98), and The Omega Suites (1991–97). Best known for The Omega Suites—precisely composed images of execution chambers in the United States—Devlin has devoted her career to exploring the relationship between our bodies and the spaces that t...

Kodak research scientist Louis M. Condax is often referred to as “the father of the Kodak Dye Transfer process.” Researcher Stephanie Hofner discusses the significance of Condax’s achievements, providing an overview of his career and his contributions to the development of Dye Transfer at Kodak Research Laboratories.

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide...