Eastman House's Travel Photography Lecture Series
All lectures are on Thursday nights in the Dryden Theatre at 6 p.m.

	September 11, 2008 | Thomas N. Tischer, World Traveler Trains: What We Have and What We Have Lost Thomas Tischer, sponsor of the Wish You Were Here Travel Photography Lecture Series, has been traveling the world for more than 60 years. The passenger train has changed with time, and this review will show trains today and trains that are now only memories.
	September 25, 2008 | Phyllis Galembo, Artist/Professor Magic of the Masquerade Artist Phyllis Galembo has traveled extensively to photograph visually stunning costumes worn by traditional priests and priestesses, carnival performers, Halloween revelers, and Haitian voodoo practitioners in Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean.
	October 16, 2008 | Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic Photographer Sponsored by CanonUSA Russia Today: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes Since 1990, Gerd Ludwig has been National Geographic's front man in the former Soviet Union, covering the effects of the recent oil boom in Western Siberia, the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the hedonism of Moscow at night.
	October 30, 2008 | Andrew Cross, Photographer The Middle of Nowhere–the Center of Everywhere Andrew Cross will discuss the background to his work on exhibit, including his interest in trains, fascination with the US landscape, and how his new work links the landscape of his childhood in Southern England with North Dakota. With support from the British Council.
	November 6, 2008 | Tom Garver, Organizing Curator of the O. Winston Link Museum Trains that Passed in the Night: The Railroad Photos of O. Winston Link Tom Garver, former assistant to O. Winston Link, covers the development of Link's photographic style and how he applied it in his documentation of the last years of steam-powered locomotion on the Norfolk and Western Railway. © O. Winston Link Museum
	November 13, 2008 | Anne Lyden, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum Railroad Vision: A Photographic Journey Anne Lyden's Railroad Vision celebrates how photographs captured the romantic vision of railroads as the symbol of industrial development, expanding nations, a suddenly accessible world, and a changing society. Image: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Langenheim Brothers [Frederick and William Langenheim], Niagara Falls, Summer View, Suspension Bridge, and Falls in the Distance about 1856, Glass, 6.5 x 6 cm .
	January 15, 2009 | Glenn Willumson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida Iron Muse: The Pictorial Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad Historian Glenn Willumson connects how the first transcontinental railroad images brought about a new understanding of the post–Civil War role of the American West and helped reconstruct America as an industrial nation with a grand new western horizon.

Wish You Were Here is generously supported by Museum member Thomas N. Tischer.