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Eastman House To Exhibit History Of Photography
30 April 2014
On May 9, the George Eastman House's International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y. will open A History of Photography, a rotating exhibit in the North Gallery that will run through Dec. 31, 2018. It's a big subject, after all.
Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot. French, 1801-1881. Louise-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1844. Daguerreotype. George Eastman House. Gift of Eastman Kodak Co., Ex-collection Gabriel Cromer. On view beginning May 9.
The selection on display will change three times a year, The first installation, selected by Lisa Hostetler, curator-in-charge of the Department of Photography, traces "photography's complex relationship to both art and information as the medium developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Hostetler suggests there are two lessons that can be learned from this first show.
The first is photography's "tremendous flexibility" in regard to both the technological and aesthetic choices photographers have made. It was a new world with many different paths through the woods.
The second derives from how familiar some of the images will be. It's proof of the "indelibile impact" of the medium that these photographs are still a part of our cultural conversation.
Hostetler, interviewed in December about her plans, said she wanted to "focus on building a dynamic program that activates the collection, brings it up-to-date and presents it in compelling ways."
This would be one.
A History of Photography
From May 9 through Dec. 31, 2018 in North Gallery
The George Eastman House 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, from daguerreotypes to digital prints.
Beginning in May 2014, the museum will dedicate the North Gallery to rotating installations that demonstrate photography's historical trajectory through photographs and cameras drawn from the collection. The selection will change three times a year, continually refreshing the experience of visiting Eastman House and offering regular opportunities to display the museum's treasures.
The first installation, selected by Lisa Hostetler, curator-in-charge of the Department of Photography, will open on May 9. It traces photography's complex relationship to both art and information as the medium developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By demonstrating the technological and aesthetic choices photographers have made for over a century and a half, the photographs in this installation illustrate the tremendous flexibility of the medium. At the same time, the iconic nature of many of the images suggests the indelible impact photography has had on our understanding of human vision and creativity.