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Monday, June 5, 2023, All Day

A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films

Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
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Monday, June 5, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

This rotation in the Collection Gallery ranges from the Crimean War (1853–56) to the War in Afghanistan (2001–21). The works challenge us to think critically about how photography documents and disseminates information about war, and how photographers’ approaches to recording war has shifted over time.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

Gallery Obscura - Studio 678 Photo Club

Gallery Obscura

On March 4, the George Eastman Museum will open a new exhibition space. The Gallery Obscura will feature exhibitions created or presented in collaboration with community organizations and school and youth programs, projects focused on Greater Rochester, and exhibitions from the museum’s collections that are thematically related to community events or that support other museum initiatives and programming. The inaugural exhibition in the Gallery Obscura is being produced in partnership with Flower City Arts Center featuring 678 Photo Club in 2021 and 2022.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

Main Galleries
Marcia Resnick was one of the most ambitious and innovative American photographers of the 1970s. Combining social critique with poignant, often humorous performance, her photographs explore—in a conceptual vernacular—aesthetic, social, and political issues at once timely and timeless. This exhibition brings together for the first time her extraordinary photographs from this period.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

For this nineteenth rotation, Stephanie Hofner, collection manager in the Department of Photography, worked with her four-year-old daughter Sawyer to select objects. While previous displays have been thematic, we will be sharing a wider variety of objects in the rotations going forward, while still highlighting the breadth and depth of the museum’s photograph holdings. An emphasis on family-friendly content can also be found thanks to Stephanie and Sawyer’s collaboration.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles

Project Gallery

Loneliness permeates Adam Ekberg’s whimsical photographs that document the climax of orchestrated events. While the camera freezes them into still lifes, a sense of continuity—like the arc of a story—happens as one realizes that Ekberg (American, b. 1975) invented, manifested, documented, and concluded these events. The objects take on lives of their own, even though we know that such agency is impossible.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1923

Historic Mansion

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.

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

This rotation in the Collection Gallery ranges from the Crimean War (1853–56) to the War in Afghanistan (2001–21). The works challenge us to think critically about how photography documents and disseminates information about war, and how photographers’ approaches to recording war has shifted over time.

Read More
Tuesday, June 6, 2023, All Day

A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films

Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

Main Galleries
Marcia Resnick was one of the most ambitious and innovative American photographers of the 1970s. Combining social critique with poignant, often humorous performance, her photographs explore—in a conceptual vernacular—aesthetic, social, and political issues at once timely and timeless. This exhibition brings together for the first time her extraordinary photographs from this period.
Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

For this nineteenth rotation, Stephanie Hofner, collection manager in the Department of Photography, worked with her four-year-old daughter Sawyer to select objects. While previous displays have been thematic, we will be sharing a wider variety of objects in the rotations going forward, while still highlighting the breadth and depth of the museum’s photograph holdings. An emphasis on family-friendly content can also be found thanks to Stephanie and Sawyer’s collaboration.

Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

This rotation in the Collection Gallery ranges from the Crimean War (1853–56) to the War in Afghanistan (2001–21). The works challenge us to think critically about how photography documents and disseminates information about war, and how photographers’ approaches to recording war has shifted over time.

Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles

Project Gallery

Loneliness permeates Adam Ekberg’s whimsical photographs that document the climax of orchestrated events. While the camera freezes them into still lifes, a sense of continuity—like the arc of a story—happens as one realizes that Ekberg (American, b. 1975) invented, manifested, documented, and concluded these events. The objects take on lives of their own, even though we know that such agency is impossible.

Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1923

Historic Mansion

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.

Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

A Bouquet of Stencil-Colored Films

Multipurpose Hall
This program of four films, screening on a loop during museum hours, feature the early technique of adding color dyes to film known as stencil-color. Stencil-coloring displays the ingenuity that early filmmakers showed in creating a method to add a palette of colors to enhance the spectacle of early movies.
Read More
Wednesday, June 7, 2023, All Day

Gallery Obscura - Studio 678 Photo Club

Gallery Obscura

On March 4, the George Eastman Museum will open a new exhibition space. The Gallery Obscura will feature exhibitions created or presented in collaboration with community organizations and school and youth programs, projects focused on Greater Rochester, and exhibitions from the museum’s collections that are thematically related to community events or that support other museum initiatives and programming. The inaugural exhibition in the Gallery Obscura is being produced in partnership with Flower City Arts Center featuring 678 Photo Club in 2021 and 2022.

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Thursday, June 8, 2023, All Day

Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles

Project Gallery

Loneliness permeates Adam Ekberg’s whimsical photographs that document the climax of orchestrated events. While the camera freezes them into still lifes, a sense of continuity—like the arc of a story—happens as one realizes that Ekberg (American, b. 1975) invented, manifested, documented, and concluded these events. The objects take on lives of their own, even though we know that such agency is impossible.

Read More
Thursday, June 8, 2023, All Day

Gallery Obscura - Studio 678 Photo Club

Gallery Obscura

On March 4, the George Eastman Museum will open a new exhibition space. The Gallery Obscura will feature exhibitions created or presented in collaboration with community organizations and school and youth programs, projects focused on Greater Rochester, and exhibitions from the museum’s collections that are thematically related to community events or that support other museum initiatives and programming. The inaugural exhibition in the Gallery Obscura is being produced in partnership with Flower City Arts Center featuring 678 Photo Club in 2021 and 2022.

Read More
Thursday, June 8, 2023, All Day

One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1923

Historic Mansion

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.

Read More
Thursday, June 8, 2023, All Day

Selections from the Collection

Collection Gallery

This rotation in the Collection Gallery ranges from the Crimean War (1853–56) to the War in Afghanistan (2001–21). The works challenge us to think critically about how photography documents and disseminates information about war, and how photographers’ approaches to recording war has shifted over time.

Read More