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Talks, Member Events | In Conversation: Gillian Laub and Jeffrey McCune
Talks, Family Events | In Focus: Looking Back Forty Years
Events for Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Open Face at Eastman Museum is open 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Gillian Laub: Southern Rites
In Southern Rites, Gillian Laub engages her skills as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist to examine the realities of racism and raise questions that are simultaneously painful and essential to understanding the American consciousness.
Selections from the Collection
Southern Rites Documentary Film
One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1923
This annual display in the historic mansion provides a glimpse of George Eastman’s life and work one hundred years ago. The new selection of objects highlights the goings on in 1923—most notably the release of the Ciné-Kodak and 16mm motion picture film and a 10-week expedition in the Cassiar region of Alaska and British Columbia, which became his favorite camping destination for the remainder of his life.
Gregory Halpern: 19 winters / 7 springs
19 winters / 7 springs contends with the idea of Buffalo, New York, and the lives of its inhabitants—its human and animal life, its architecture and landscape—all rendered by Gregory Halpern in their dynamic complexity. This exhibition plots the cyclical nature of time and the passage of seasons, but Halpern’s photographs also register both the visual evidence of history and the particularity of life in the present.
Walk Cheerfully
Silent Tuesdays Director Yasujiro Ozu is usually known for his pensive and serious tones. But prior to those staid dramas of the 1940s and ‘50s, Ozu made films inspired by the imported cinema he grew up with.