History of Photography [Rotation 8]
Exhibition Info History of Photography [Rotation 8] 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, from daguerreotypes to digital prints.
The museum's History of Photography Gallery is dedicated to rotating installations that demonstrate photography’s historical trajectory through photographs and cameras drawn from the collection. The selection of photographs changes approximately three times a year, continually refreshing the experience of visiting the Eastman Museum and offering regular opportunities to display the museum’s treasures.
This rotation provides an overview of the history of photography through photographs made in Mexico by known artists, photojournalists, and archaeologists, as well as unidentified tourists and studio photographers from Europe, the United States, and Mexico. The installation begins with an extraordinary daguerreotype that dates to 1839, the year the invention of photography was announced, and ends with a triptych from contemporary Mexican artist Alejandro Cartagena’s critically acclaimed Carpoolers series (2011–2012). Assistant Curator of Photography Heather Shannon curated the rotation.
Photograph
Alejandro Cartagena
2011–2012
2018.0081.0001a-c
Photograph
Pedro Meyer
1981
2016.0009.0001
Photograph
David Maawad
1993
2015.0133.0826
Photograph
Antonio Wallace Turok
1994
2015.0133.0360
Photograph
Antonio Wallace Turok
January 1, 1994
2015.0133.0359
Hybrid Photographic Object
Unidentified
ca. 1925
2014.0186.0006
Photograph
Ernst Haas
1963
2014.0086.0001
Photograph
Alex Webb
1979
2004.0736.0002
Camera
Eastman Kodak Company
1992
1998.1440.0001
Sculpture
Unidentified
ca. 1955
1997.1824.0001
Photograph
Graciela Iturbide
1974
1994.1229.0008
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0029
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0028
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0024
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0017
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0016
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0007
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0005
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0004
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0002
Photograph
Cruces y Campa
1876
1989.0190.0001
Photograph
Underwood & Underwood
ca. 1901
1983.1952.0026
Photograph
Underwood & Underwood
ca. 1901
1983.1952.0010
Photograph
Unidentified
1890
1981.2862.0210