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Please note: The exhibition Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show is closed today due to technical issues in the gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to reopen it as soon as possible.

William Kentridge donates his complete works in time-based media to George Eastman Museum

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Rochester, N.Y., October 08, 2015—
The George Eastman Museum announced today that William Kentridge has donated the complete set of his films, videos, and digital-born works to the museum. The gift comprises both original negatives and positive prints covering Kentridge’s entire career as a filmmaker, as well as all of the master elements of the renowned artist’s works in electronic and digital media.
William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955). Stereoscope, 1999. From the series Drawings for Projection. Frame enlargement from a 16mm acetate print. George Eastman Museum, gift of the artist.

A History of Photography

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The George Eastman Museum photography collection is among the best and most comprehensive in the world. With holdings that include objects ranging in date from the announcement of the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day, the collection represents the full history of photography. Works by renowned masters of the medium exist side-by-side with vernacular and scientific photographs. The collection also includes all applications of the medium, from artistic pursuit to commercial enterprise and from amateur pastime to documentary record, as well as all types of photographic processes...

George Eastman Museum acquires world’s largest collection of contemporary Indian cinema

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Rochester, N.Y., November 03, 2015—
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 775 prints representing 597 film titles, all in 35mm format, made between 1999 and 2013. In addition, about 6,000 film posters were acquired as part of the collection. This exceptional donation represents not only films from the Hindi-language film industry commonly known as “Bollywood,” but also Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu productions. The languages represented in these films include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati

Aura Satz: Eyelids Leaking Light

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To complement the exhibition In Glorious Technicolor, George Eastman House presents two works by London-based artist Aura Satz in Eyelids Leaking Light. This marks the North American premiere of Satz’s new work, Chromatic Aberration (2014), in which she explores the aesthetics of “color fringing” by using film elements from the Eastman House collection.

Satz's work incorporates film, sound, performance, and sculpture. Her art focuses on the complex intersections between the history, technology, and aesthetics of media, while exploring the ways in which they change the understanding of human...

History: Photographs by David Levinthal

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Photographer David Levinthal’s most recent series, History, is a culmination of his work over the last three-and-a-half decades. Like his previous bodies of work—the most well-known of which include Hitler Moves East (1975–77), Modern Romance (1984–86), The Wild West (1987–89), and Barbie (1998–99)—History speaks to the way in which popular imagery infiltrates memory, imagination, and identity. The exhibition at George Eastman House will be the first time that History is presented to the public.

To make his work, Levinthal (American, b. 1949) begins by finding vintage figurines and play sets...

Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project

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Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey’s The Birmingham Project is a reflection on the September 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—an event that resulted in the deaths of six African American adolescents.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of this tragedy—which became a flash point of the Civil Rights Movement—Bey photographed Birmingham residents; about half of those photographed were the same ages as the victims (11, 13, 14, 16), and the rest were the ages that those children would have been in 2013, had they lived. Thirteen of the sixteen...

Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness

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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness examines both the dramatic and historical demise of film-manufacturing facilities and industrial darkrooms. The photographs taken between 2005 and 2010 speak to sites and events related to the key corporations (Kodak, Agfa, Ilford). As an artist working in photography for the past thirty years, Burley has been both an observer and a participant in this radical transition. This exhibition addresses both the emergence of a new technology, which irrevocably changed photography, as well as the abrupt and rapid breakdown of a century old...

Innovation in the Imaging Capital

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For decades, Rochester was known as the imaging capital of the world. Innovation and invention by Rochester’s imaging companies paved the way for the world we now live in, from medical testing to space exploration, digital capture and transmission, and more.

Innovation in the Imaging Capital highlights Rochester’s major contributions to the imaging story, showing technology made possible by inventions that were originated or developed here. One section of the exhibition focuses on consumer photographic products, including early digital inventions such as the first digital camera patented by...

Peter Greenaway—The Stairs: Geneva, the Location

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As cinema approached its one hundredth year, filmmaker Peter Greenaway (British, b. 1942) embarked on perhaps his most ambitious project to date: The Stairs. This massive installation project would take place in ten cities around the world over the course of a decade, with each installment focusing on one of ten themes related to the language of cinema (location, audience, projection, and so on). At the same time, each exhibition would be an attempt to push the medium’s language forward, displacing film from the darkened theater to the space of everyday life. 

In 1994, Geneva, Switzerland...