Artist's Talk: Jason Lazarus, Gestures Toward the Photographic
Working with photography as an expanded field, Jason Lazarus will trace multiple projects that rely on found images and text, including his installation T.H.T.K. (Rochester), on view in A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age.
Panel Discussion: Matter and Memory in the Digital Age
In a conversation moderated by exhibition curator Lisa Hostetler, artists James Welling, Marco Breuer, and Diane Meyer will discuss how the transition from analog to digital technologies is changing the landscape of memory.
Member Events
A History of Photography
This rotation provides an overview of the history of photography through photographs made in Mexico by known artists, photojournalists, and archaeologists, as well as unidentified tourists and studio photographers from Europe, the United States, and Mexico. The installation begins with an extraordinary daguerreotype that dates to 1839, the year the invention of photography was announced, and ends with a triptych from contemporary Mexican artist Alejandro Cartagena’s critically acclaimed Carpoolers series (2011–2012). Assistant Curator of Photography Heather Shannon curated the rotation.
Pop-Up Talk with Lori Nix
Lori Nix, whose work is featured in the History of Photography Gallery, will discuss the imaginary worlds she creates in her elaborate dioramas.
Members free; included with museum admission.
Performance Plus: Baroque Guitar
Students from the Eastman Community Music School will perform a recital in the historic mansion, featuring Warner Iversen.
Performance Plus: Quartet
Students from the Eastman Community Music School will perform a recital in the historic mansion, featuring the Upton Quartet.
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age opens this fall at the George Eastman Museum
The George Eastman Museum will screen Muddy Track (1987) as part of the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival
Billy Petito: Guitar
Billy Petito performs jazz guitar in the mansion.
