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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.

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History of Photography Installations

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The George Eastman Museum's History of Photography Gallery is dedicated to rotating installations that trace photography’s historical path to the present through photographs and cameras from the collection. The photographs in the gallery change approximately three times a year (and the cameras once a year), continually refreshing the experience of visiting the museum and offering regular opportunities to view its treasures. Below are highlights from past installations of the History of Photography exhibitions. Visit Current Exhibitions to read about the latest rotation. July 26, 2020–March

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Drawn largely from the Eastman Museum collection, this major retrospective of Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) assembles the best works from major international collections for the first time, allowing visitors to appreciate the full scope and import of this master photographer.

Coburn was a photographer associated with Pictorialism at the turn of the twentieth century who embraced Modernism around 1917. His career began when well-known photographer and distant relative Fred Holland Day (1864–1933), took him as a protégé, exposing him to art photography in Boston’s Beacon Hill.

In 1900...

Photography and America’s National Parks

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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Park Service, George Eastman Museum presents Photography and America’s National Parks, an exhibition that highlights photography’s past and present role in the development of America’s National Parks. For more than 150 years, photographs of these vast spaces have helped us view and understand these landscapes, from Yosemite to the most recent addition of Pinnacles National Park.

Photography and America’s National Parks features images of many of the current 59 national parks. It begins by tracing the photographic history...

The Nitrate Picture Show returns to the George Eastman Museum in 2016

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Rochester, N.Y., November 23, 2015—
The George Eastman Museum officially announced today that it will be presenting the 2nd Nitrate Picture Show this coming spring. The festival will be held April 29–May 1, 2016 at the Dryden Theatre, the George Eastman Museum’s historic venue for film exhibition in Rochester, NY. The Dryden Theatre—one of only a few archival venues in the world that can project nitrate film—is home to the museum’s ongoing program of past and present cinematic works from all countries.