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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.

A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age

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Thanks to the convenience and ubiquity of computers and smartphones with built-in digital cameras, the majority of photographic images are being recorded digitally rather than on film, as was the norm less than twenty years ago. The resulting images are viewed on a screen, rather than as physical objects. As this transformation has broadened access to photographic image-making and allowed photographic images to reach a wider audience than ever before, in many contexts it has also obviated the need for photographic prints. Snapshooters, photojournalists, and commercial photographers in all...

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...