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American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy
September 26, 2025–March 1, 2026
Main Galleries
Events for Saturday, February 1, 2025
Saturday, February 1, 2025, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
As the George Eastman Museum approaches and celebrates its 75th anniversary, we are featuring a group of exhibitions that highlight a wide range of holdings from the museum’s collection. With this selection of objects in the Collection Gallery, we continue our broad survey of works to draw parallels and connections between photography, history, and culture. The objects chosen for this exhibition will chart a course through this history, identifying notable movements and trends while giving context to a breadth of photographic practices, technologies, communities, and traditions.
Saturday, February 1, 2025, All Day
Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
Main Galleries
Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum explores the many ways in which photographic objects have come to shape our everyday lives. The exhibition encompasses broad cultural histories and image-making practices.
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 2 p.m.
Dryden Roundtable: From Rochester, With Love
Dryden Theatre
Dryden Roundtable Our current film series, “From Rochester, With Love” focuses on bringing films starring, directed by, or written by artists from Rochester. Whether they were born here, lived here, studied here, or worked here, there is an impressive list of filmmakers that Rochester can claim as their own, from the silent period to those still working today.
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Dahomey (+ Statues Also Die)
Dryden Theatre
Rochester Premiere This poetic, immersive documentary delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination, and restitution. Set in November 2021, the film charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin.