Exhibition curator, Jamie M. Allen will discuss her rotation in a Focus 45 lecture on Saturday, October 21 at 12 p.m.
The George Eastman Museum opened a new rotation in its History of Photography Gallery on October 14. This installation, curated by Jamie M. Allen, associate curator in the Department of Photography, uses the self-portrait to depict the history of photography.
This rotation provides an overview of the history of photography through images that include photographers, photographic apparatus, and/or photographic objects. Made by a wide range of photographers, the objects on view begin with John Moffat’s 1865 portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot and culminate in Gillian Wearing’s 2013 work Me As Talbot, a self-portrait that mimics a portrayal of Talbot with his mousetrap camera. Curated by Jamie M. Allen, associate curator of photography, this installation depicts how photographers have referred to the medium, and to themselves, in their image-making.
This rotation in the History of Photography Gallery will remain on view through April 1, 2018.
Public Programming
Focus 45: History of Photography
Saturday, October 21, 12 p.m.
Curtis Theatre
Jamie M. Allen will discuss the latest installation in the museum’s History of Photography Gallery. The talk is free for museum members, and included with admission to the museum.
Curator's Gallery Tour
Thursday, December 21, 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 10, 1 p.m.
Associate Curator Jamie Allen will lead a gallery tour of her selections for the current History of Photography rotation. The tour is free for museum members, and included with admission to the museum.
About the Photography Collection
The George Eastman Museum’s 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.
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 the fields of film preservation and of photographic preservation and collection management. For more information, visit eastman.org.
