History of Photography [Rotation 9]
Exhibition Info History of Photography [Rotation 9] This installation in the History of Photography Gallery, on view from May 12 to October 8, 2017, provides an overview of the history of photography through photographs of architecture, one of the medium’s earliest and most popular subjects. The photographs were made by a variety of practitioners—professionally trained architectural photographers, tourists, artists—and highlight the wide range of approaches that photographers have adopted in their depictions of the built environment.
About the History of Photography Gallery
The George Eastman Museum photography collection is among the best and most comprehensive in the world. With holdings 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 changing selection of photographs refreshes the experience of visiting the Eastman Museum and offers regular opportunities to display the museum’s treasures.
Photograph
Julius Shulman
1957
2008.0559.0001
Photograph
Todd Hido
2000
2001.1541.0001
Photograph
Abelardo Morell
1991
1995.2068.0001
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0064
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0060
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0034
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0027
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0023
Photograph
Edward Greutman
ca. 1928
1985.0975.0007
Photograph
William Christenberry
1983
1985.0761.0001
Photograph
Louis-Alphonse Davanne
ca. 1865
1983.1339.0003
Photograph
Robert H. Harr
1981
1981.2127.0082
Photograph
Charles Sheeler
1916–17
1981.1758.0022
Photograph
John Shaw Smith
May 1852
1981.1683.0337
Photograph
John Shaw Smith
October 1851
1981.1683.0334
Negative
John Shaw Smith
May 1852
1981.1683.0246
Negative
John Shaw Smith
October 1851
1981.1683.0187
Photograph
Frederick H. Evans
1911
1981.1198.0047
Photograph
Eugène Atget
1908-09
1981.0955.0024
Photograph
Delmaet & Durandelle
January–August 1867
1980.0099.0001
Photograph
Unidentified
ca. 1855
1978.1629.0003
Photograph
Maison Bonfils
ca. 1885
1978.0646.0001
Photograph
Lewis W. Hine
ca. 1931
1977.0165.0061
Photograph
Thomas Annan
1868
1975.0054.0005
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