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Actor and photographer Jason Lee to speak at the George Eastman Museum

Aug 23rd, 2018
Time: 6pm
Location: George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue , Rochester NY
Phone: (585)-327-4800

The George Eastman Museum welcomes actor and photographer Jason Lee to Rochester on Thursday, August 23. Lee will present a special edition Wish You Were Here talk in the Dryden Theatre at 6 p.m., followed by a signing of his new photo book, A Plain View.

Over the course of his career, Lee has been a professional skateboarder, an actor, a producer, and—for the focus of this special Wish You Were Here talk—a photographer. Lee’s latest installment (A Plain View) in his series documenting rural America consists of photographs taken in Texas in 2017. The images are rich in texture and saturation, revealing the unique characteristics of the expired 4×5 Kodak color films he photographs with. A book of this project has recently been published and will be available in the Museum Store. Lee will be signing books after the talk.

The Wish You Were Here talk will be held in the Dryden Theatre, and admission is free for museum members. General admission is $10 general and $5 for students (with ID). Doors open 45 minutes before the lecture begins, and the museum’s café will be open for dinner, coffee, or dessert.

This special edition of Wish You Were Here is co-organized by the Kodak Camera Club and generously supported by Dr. Thomas N. Tischer. The full 2018 Wish You Were Here series will be announced later this summer. Visit eastman.org for more information.  

About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program and, through its two joint master’s degree programs with the University of Rochester, makes critical contributions to film preservation and to photographic preservation and collections management. For more information, visit eastman.org.

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