Current Exhibitions
»The Gender Show
From June 15, 2013 through October 13, 2013 at George Eastman House.
The Gender Show explores ways gender has been presented in photographs, ranging from archetypal to non-traditional to subversive representations, with a special emphasis on the performances that photography can encourage or capture.
The exhibition will feature more than 130 photographs from the George Eastman House collection, spanning the 19th century to the present, by a wide range of artists including Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Nickolas Muray, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, Barbara Norfleet, Mary Ellen Mark, Cindy Sherman, and Chuck Samuels.
ANTHONY HITTING ON GISELLE, VIVIEN WAITING,
LORIMER STREET, WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
Vincent Cianni
ca. 1996 Gelatin silver print © George Eastman House collection
Works from our collection will be supplemented with a set of photographs and videos by several contemporary artists, including Janine Antoni, Kalup Linzy, Martha Rosler, and Gillian Wearing.
»My Pie Town
From June 15, 2013 through October 13, 2013 in the Brackett–Clark Annex.
On display as part of The Gender Show, Debbie Grossman’s photographic series My Pie Town a parallen world: a town populated exclusively by women and girls.
»Cameras from the Technology Collection
From May 5, 2005 through December 31, 2013 in the North Gallery.
"All the things the public most wants to see from the technology collection," that’s how Technology Curator Todd Gustavson describes the exhibition in the North Gallery. The display includes a variety of photographic highlights from camera obscuras through digital imaging designed to show the evolution of photography as well as its revolutions.