Robert Weingarten spent four years photographing Amish communities in Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The culmination of this work is Another America: A Testimonial to the Amish. Mostly black-and-white, Weingarten's exquisitely composed photographs depict aspects of everyday Amish life—children at play, horse-drawn carriages, laundry on clotheslines—along with pastoral scenes and simple compositions of Amish architecture.

The Amish first came to America from Europe in the early eighteenth century in search of religious freedom. Over the past three hundred years...

As photographs became increasingly ubiquitous in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they came to play a major role in our understanding and experience of place. Of Time and Buildings presents the work of several artists who explore the relationship between photographic images of the built environment and our experience of place.

The photographers in this exhibition approach the photographic interpretation of the built environment in myriad ways. Some reinforce the conceptual goals of the public buildings that are their subject while others explore a more personal realm, in which the...

Photographs of Hasidic Communities in Israel by Pavel Wolberg

In 1999, photographer Pavel Wolberg stumbled upon a Hasidic wedding ceremony at an event hall in Israel, where he was living and working as a photojournalist. Stepping through the door, he felt himself transported to another world, one in which revelry and reverence played essential roles. He went on to photograph a number of Hasidic rituals and ceremonies over the next decade, producing vibrant images that suggest the complex dynamic between individual and group identity. 

Pavel Wolberg was born in Russia and moved with his...

Lossless (2008) is a contemporary art installation by Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin that explores the possibilities of the transformation and distortion of images—and ultimately the creation of new ones—within the digital realm.

Lossless explains in vivid and eloquent terms the impermanence and fragility of the digital image. Given the current transition from analog to digital in the creation and exhibition of moving images, Baron and Goodwin’s installation has achieved the status of a poetic manifesto on the issues surrounding the radical transformation of a mode of visual expression...

Join us in celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of widescreen cinema. As a direct reaction to the growth of the small screen TV in the home, Twentieth Century-Fox's CinemaScope process expanded the scale of cinema, increasing the size and width of the screen exponentially and adding new crisper multi-channel sound. CinemaScope emerged the victor in the clash of competing technologies which included 3D, Cinerama, and VistaVision. Rochester played a notable role in the success of CinemaScope; Bausch & Lomb designed and supplied the anamorphic lenses to thousands of newly equipped...

To complement The History of Space Photography, Eastman House has organized Astro-Visions, which draws from our rich collections to explore how scientists, photographers, and filmmakers have incorporated images of outer space into their work. Among the items on display are examples of how scientists illustrated astral bodies before photography, film stills from Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon and Roger Vadim’s Barbarella, and photographs by Bill Finger depicting an imaginary world in which an astronaut gives up everything to live on Mars. The exhibition is science–meets–science fiction...

The History of Space Photography showcases a variety of astronomical photographs that have been created since the development of the photography in the early 19th century, and will feature a number of the most important scientific photographs ever created.

From the earliest black and white photographs of the Moon, solar eclipses, and stars through the most recent color images of the early history of the universe from space telescopes, this will be the most comprehensive exhibition of its kind ever organized.

Since prehistory, our species has been in wonderment of the cosmos, those...

On display as part of The Gender Show, Debbie Grossman’s photographic series My Pie Town reworks a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Using Photoshop to modify Lee’s pictures, Grossman creates an imaginary, parallel world: a Pie Town populated exclusively by women and girls.

Grossman is interested in playing with time, reimagining history, and reviving archival images and documents. Born and raised in Rochester, she holds a master of fine arts degree in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of...

In common use, the word gender may refer to biological sex, self-identity, perceived identity, or imposed identity. Gender can be both fluid and ambiguous. Many of the ways we express and identify gender are based on visual clues. George Eastman House is proud to present The Gender Show, an exhibition that explores ways gender has been presented in photographs, ranging from archetypal to non-traditional to subversive representations, with a special emphasis on the performances that photography can encourage or capture.

With a collection that spans over 170 years of photography, Eastman House...

The George Eastman House installation by Los Angeles artist Lauren Bon links the mountains of Southern California and the historic photographic industry of Rochester, N.Y., through an exploration of their shared connections to two basic elements.

The exhibition will consist of 19 very large prints produced around America by Bon with her Metabolic Studio Optics Division. They are a product of the Liminal Camera, a gigantic pinhole device made out of a shipping container that contains both the camera operators and a processing facility.

The artist says:

“Silver and water are vital to the...

60 from the 60s features 60 prints from the 1960s by 10 of the most significant photographers from that eventful decade, offering a dynamic look at photography of the era. Many of photographers were just beginning to create a name for themselves in the 1960s, and some were established artists then in the midst of successful careers. The featured artists are Harry Callahan, Benedict J. Fernandez, Hollis Frampton, Betty Hahn, Robert Heinecken, Mary Ellen Mark, Roger Mertin, Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, and Garry Winogrand.

This selection from the Eastman House archive reveals high modernism at...

An artist drawn to exploring the visual landscape of America’s consumption economy, Brian Ulrich (American, b. 1971) has spent the last several years photographing sites and people associated with extreme wealth.

The title The Centurion refers to a modern myth turned reality that began in the 1980s. According to urban legend, American Express issued, by invitation only, a special charge card to ultra-wealthy individuals, who could use it to purchase anything and everything they wanted–from personal planes to private islands–as long as they did not disclose the existence of the card. The...

For over twenty years, artist Lorna Bieber (American, b. 1949) has made the world of reproduced photographic images the subject of her work. Trained as a painter, Bieber became interested in the photographic image as subject while working in the art department and then as a photo editor for large-circulation magazines in the late 1980s. She subsequently developed a working method that begins with stock photographic images, which she then photocopies, enlarges, reduces, paints on and/or draws on, variously repeating or combining these actions—via manual procedures—until the images become...