Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this "collaboratory" brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots . . .
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Albumen Printing
Learn the most popular printing process of nineteenth century. The group will prepare the egg whites, coat and sensitize the paper, and print from digital and glass collodion negatives . . .
Artist’s Talk: Rachel Sussman
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Ambrotypes: The Basics
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Photographic Processes Video Series & Glossary
Salt Printing
Learn the basics of making prints with the first photographic printing process, introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s. Mark Osterman and Nick Brandreth will guide participants through the steps of coating, printing, processing, and displaying salted paper prints made from glass, paper, and digital negatives.
Gelatin Dry Plates in the Woods
If you like camping, hiking, and large format photography, this is the workshop for you. The group will initially be guided by Nick Brandreth and Mark Osterman to make their own silver bromide gelatin emulsion in the darkroom at George Eastman House. Then, each participant will coat pieces of 4x5” glass to produce a stock of negative plates. On the second day, we’ll travel to Letchworth State Park, known as the Grand Canyon of the East, and set up camp in rustic cabins nestled in the woods.
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35mm Daguerreotype
Make real daguerreotypes with your own 35mm camera without expensive processing equipment or dangerous chemicals. This is a great workshop for the beginner or the student who wants to make real daguerreotypes on a shoestring budget.
Conversation with Taryn Simon
Contemporary artist Taryn Simon will discuss her work currently on view in Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies, in a conversation with Nico Baumbach, film scholar and assistant professor at Columbia University School of the Arts.
Mother’s Day Brunch 2015
Brunch in the Potter Peristyle, followed by a tour of In the Garden with exhibition curator Jamie Allen. Guests are invited to stay and tour the historic house and gardens and have a family portrait taken. Nancy R. Turner Landscape Curator Amy Kinsey and docents will be available to answer questions. Tickets: $40 for Eastman House members, $50 non-members, $15 children 4–12; includes brunch and museum admission. Tables can be reserved for up to 10 guests. Reservations accepted through May 4: (585) 271-3361 ext.
Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies
In 1936, American ornithologist James Bond (1900–1989) published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the author's name for his novel's lead character. This appropriation was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative. Uniting Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work.
In her series Birds of the West Indies, Simon presents a photographic inventory of women...
35mm Motion Picture Film Making
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Get hands-on experience making black-and-white 35mm perforated film stock. The group will make a gelatin silver bromide emulsion, coat acetate film base, then slit and perforate it. Using a Bell & Howell Eyemo 35mm motion picture camera, participants will shoot this film in the same historic gardens filmed by George Eastman and Thomas Edison nearly a century ago.
