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Talks | Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla
American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy
September 26, 2025–March 1, 2026
Main Galleries
Events for Saturday, February 22, 2025
Saturday, February 22, 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 22, 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 22, 2025, 9 a.m.
Dutch Connection Coffee Talk 2/22/25
Multipurpose Hall
An in-depth look into the making of the Annual Dutch Connection bulb display.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 2 p.m.
Matinee: Elizabeth (35mm)
Dryden Theatre
Recent Acquisitions | To Collect and Project Queen Elizabeth I’s rise to power and early rule in a fractured England is dramatized in this lush production. Loyalty is split along religious lines when Catholic Queen Mary I dies in 1558, leaving her half-sister, Protestant Elizabeth, as the heir to the throne.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Theater of Thought
Dryden Theatre
Rochester Premiere Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our throughs, or if our brains will inevitable become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not-so-distant future.