Gelatin Dry Plates in the Woods of Letchworth State Park
Sold out! Please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. If you like camping, hiking, and large format photography, this is the workshop for you.
Ambrotypes and Tintypes
Sold out! Please email [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. Ambrotypes and tintypes are the hottest alternative processes used in fine art photography today. In this intensive five-day workshop, participants will be guided through the basics of making these unique positive wet-collodion images.
Salt and Albumen Printing
Learn the two most popular printing processes of the nineteenth century: salt and albumen.
Gelatin Emulsion Dry Plate Negatives
The basics of making gelatin emulsion dry plates are covered in this fun and informative emulsion workshop for beginners.
Intermediate Gelatin Emulsion Dry Plate Negatives
Sold Out! Building upon our basic gelatin emulsion workshops, this intermediate workshop takes emulsion making to the next level.
Stereographs
In this workshop, participants will make albumen prints from digital negatives to produce three-dimensional stereograph cards.
35mm Daguerreotype
Make real daguerreotypes with your own 35mm camera without expensive processing equipment or dangerous chemicals.
Carbon Tissue Making and Printing
Learn to make your own carbon tissues using pigments available at your local art supply store or online.
Spirit Photography
Make your own “ghost” images in this popular workshop. Participants will learn the basics of making wet collodion tintypes and the nineteenth-century secrets of making ghost imagery.
Nandita Raman: Cinema Play House
Between 2006 and 2009, Nandita Raman traveled throughout India creating Cinema Play House, a series of photographs depicting the country’s slowly disappearing single-screen theaters. Raman, whose family once owned one such theater in Varanasi, India, focuses her lens on the architectural anomalies that set these spaces apart from the larger multiplex theaters that currently threaten their existence.
Also on view: Stories of Indian Cinema: Abandoned and Rescued, which tells the story of the George Eastman Museum's recently acquired collection of contemporary Indian cinema.
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Stories of Indian Cinema: Abandoned and Rescued
The George Eastman Museum has recently acquired the world’s largest collection of contemporary Indian cinema held by a museum or film archive. The collection consists of 774 prints representing 597 film titles, all in 35mm format, made between 1999 and 2013. A large number of film posters were also acquired as part of the collection. Stories of Indian Cinema will shed light on the intriguing story behind the Eastman Museum's acquisition of this collection, and will feature a selection of posters and films in the main galleries and at the Dryden Theatre.
Also on view: Nandita Raman: Cinema...
Canceled—Cocktails with Elizabeth Taylor
This event has been canceled. Join us for a night of cocktails and Elizabeth Taylor. Co-hosted by the Rochester Cocktail Revival and presented in conjunction with the exhibition Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor through photographs of her home and mementos.
Lucinda Devlin: Sightlines
Selections from three series by photographer Lucinda Devlin (American, b. 1947) are featured in this exhibition: Pleasure Ground (1977–90), Corporal Arenas (1982–98), and The Omega Suites (1991–97). Best known for The Omega Suites—precisely composed images of execution chambers in the United States—Devlin has devoted her career to exploring the relationship between our bodies and the spaces that they inhabit. She has concentrated in particular on interiors associated with pleasure or pain, creating photographs that draw attention to the power relationships embedded in a room’s architecture and...
Steve Kelly: Aeolian Pipe Organ
Steve Kelly performs on the aeolian pipe organ in the mansion.
Joe Blackburn: Aeolian Pipe Organ
Joe Blackburn performs on the aeolian pipe organ in the mansion.
Clarinet Collection
The Clarinet Collection is clarinet choir made up of the various members of the clarinet family from the tiny E flat sopranino clarinet to the contrabass clarinet. They will perform original music and transcriptions of famous literature.
Free to members; included w/ museum admission.
Lyric Academy of Music
Students of the Lyric Academy of Music will perform a selection of works in celebration of Mozart's birthday.
Free to members; included with museum admission.
Alison Chiang, Piano
Pianist Alison Chiang of the Eastman School of Music will perform a solo recital of classical and jazz selections.
Glorious! The Technicolor Digital Library Project
This talk by Jared Case and Kelsey Eckert of the Moving Image Department will introduce you to the people working on this project and give you a sense of what to expect from the final product: the Technicolor Online Research Archive.
Valentine's Day Brunch & Film 2017
Brunch will be served in the Potter Peristyle, followed by the 11:30 a.m. screening of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) in the Dryden Theatre.
