Ellis Island Experience is Focus of Exhibition at Michener Art Museum

DOYLESTOWN, PA.- For twelve million people, Ellis Island was the doorway to a new life, with the hopes and dreams of several generations of immigrants beginning and sometimes ending there. Understandably, this American landmark in New York Harbor has deeply inspired many artists. Most notably, the legendary photographer Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented the human drama as it unfolded at the immigration center in the early 1900s, while the acclaimed contemporary photographer Stephen Wilkes captured the long-abandoned buildings of the island’s [...]

Chautauqua, Kodak and Eastman House Present Week on Photography

CHAUTAUQUA, NY.- Chautauqua Institution is partnering with Eastman Kodak Company and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film for a week unlike any other offered in the Institution’s history — exploring the world of photography with world-renowned speakers, interactive exhibits and activities, and an onsite social media center designed to share the experience with the world. Week Five of Chautauqua’s nine-week 2010 Season, taking place July 25 through 31, is themed “Picture This: Photography” and will examine photography [...]

Joe Deal, Landscape Photographer and Educator, Dies at Age 62

TUCSON, AZ.- The Center for Creative Photography, which in 2009 became home to the Joe Deal Archive, reported Deal’s death on Friday, June 18, 2010. Joe Deal defined his artistic career with black‐and‐white photographs of the American landscape, which were both thoughtfully conceived and beautifully presented. One of ten photographers included in the renowned 1975 George Eastman House exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man‐Altered Landscape, Deal’s photography helped define how artists presented the built environment through the lens. His [...]

Kodak Donates Colorama Collection to Photo Museum

ROCHESTER, NY.- Eastman Kodak Co. is turning over its archive of panoramic Colorama images to a hometown photography museum in upstate New York where its founder lived. George Eastman House said Friday the collection includes original negatives and prints of all 565 gigantic Coloramas displayed in New York’s Grand Central Terminal from 1950 to 1990. Those backlit transparencies, promoted by Kodak as the “world’s largest photographs,” measured 60 feet long by 18 feet high. New elongated images were installed every [...]

Sawdust Mountain: Photographs by Eirik Johnson at Aperture Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- A culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Eirik Johnson’s Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this exhibition, and accompanying book of the same title (published by Aperture last year), Eirik [...]

George Eastman House Acquires Merchant Ivory Collection

ROCHESTER, NY.- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film announces one of the most important acquisitions in its 61-year history — the collection of Merchant Ivory Productions. This collection of 2,600 elements includes more than 40 film titles, such as Oscar®-winners A Room With a View (1986) and Howards End (1992) and Oscar® nominees such as The Remains of the Day (1993), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), and The Bostonians (1984). Film director James Ivory will be honored [...]

Technicolor Donates Archive to George Eastman House

ROCHESTER, NY.- George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film announced a major gift to the museum — the historic archive of Technicolor dating from 1915 to 1974. The donation includes rare cameras, documents and drawings, photographs, printers and processing machines, corporate records, and other important materials that represent the history of Technicolor’s groundbreaking contributions to motion pictures. This collection joins the Eastman House’s current Technicolor holdings of early research papers, technology, and the world’s largest collection of Technicolor [...]

SFMOMA to Offer a Fresh Look at Seminal 1975 Photography Exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, on view from July 17 to October 3, 2010. Comprised of close to 150 photographs, it is a restaging of a historically significant exhibition held in 1975 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. This reprisal brings together the work of all ten photographers included in the original New Topographics: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, [...]

George Eastman House Names New Curator of Motion Pictures

ROCHESTER, NY.- Dr. Caroline Frick has been named curator of motion pictures at George House International Museum of Photography and Film, the third largest film archive in the United States. Assuming her position on March 1, she is the sixth curator of motion pictures in the museum’s 61-year history. She has previously worked in film preservation at Warner Bros., Library of Congress, and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. At Eastman House she oversees motion picture preservation efforts and the [...]

Exhibition Introduces Historical and Contemporary Photographic Masterpieces

ALBANY, NY.- Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection opens February 12 at the New York State Museum as the next exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series. On view through May 9 in the Museum’s West Gallery, the exhibition is the 22nd installment of the Bank of America Great Art Exhibition and Education Program, which brings art from New York State’s leading art museums and collections to the State Museum. Seeing Ourselves introduces [...]

First Solo Show in Western Europe for Todd Hido at Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery

COLOGNE.- With the exhibition House Hunting / Nudes of photographs by the US-American artist Todd Hido the Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery presents the first solo show of the artist in Western Europe. The exhibited photographs are a selected body of works out of his monographs ‘House Hunting’ and ‘Between the Two’. Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay-Area based photo artist. Since 2001, when he published his first monograph, entitled ‘House Hunting’ he became a rising star of the American art [...]

Photographs of Celebrated Photographer Stephen Wilkes at Steuben Glass

NEW YORK, NY.- Steuben Glass is hosting an exhibition in the gallery at Steuben’s Flagship Store on Madison Avenue of the photographs of celebrated American Photographer Stephen Wilkes. “Ellis Island” is a show comprised of Wilkes’ haunting Ilfochrome prints. The work began as an assignment to photograph the “dark side” of Ellis Island that no one sees, and eventually turned into an obsession, several exhibitions, and a book. Wilkes’s haunting Ilfochrome prints of the “dark side” of Ellis Island For [...]