On november 3, 2011 Ben Lowy discussed his work, which documents places including Haiti, Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya during times of conflict. In his most recent book “Iraq: Perspectives” Lowy shares photographs that were shot through the windows of U.S. Army Humvees. The images show those not familiar with living in a war zone the views seen daily by soldiers and offers glimpses of the lives of those who reside in the midst of conflict.

Part 1: Iraq, Haiti

Part 2: Darfur, Afghanistan, Iraq

Part 3: Cage fighting, Gulf oil spill, Afghanistan, Libya

In her talk on October 16, 2011, An Anthology of Photographs, photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe explores a deliberate decision to investigate the relationship between the faces and places she has encountered. Her work gives the viewer an opportunity to examine and experience our relationships to the world.

Moutoussamy-Ashe writes of her work: “The anthology that I have put together — representing the faces, places and spaces I have experienced — was a conscious decision to explore and investigate the relationship of these themes when grouped together: it is a representation of the expression of visual literacy. Everyone reads imagery from their own stream of consciousness and comfort. We are offered an opportunity to examine and experience our own relationship to the world around us. In doing so, we can be logical and we must improvise!”

Click here to listen in on Jeanne’s talk

For award-winning documentary photographer and writer Alison Wright, traveling in packed vehicles around Third World countries was just part of a day’s work — until the day her bus careened around a blind curve on a remote jungle road in Laos and collided head-on with a logging truck. Overcoming life-threatening injuries and extensive rehabilitation, Wright has achieved the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and resuming her work as a photojournalist.

On November 17, 2011, Alison revisited her “Photo Journeys” in the Dryden Theatre.
Part 1- India, Nepal, Cambodia, Burma, Japan, Kashmir

Part 2- Mongolia, China, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Brazil, Sri Lanka, United States

Since 2006, Christopher Kleihege has been photographing Caral, the “oldest centre of civilization” in the Western Hemisphere. The massive pyramids, plazas, and other constructions sit nestled in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, and their discovery is beginning to challenge our understandings of early modern man.

Christopher gave a compelling talk about his work in the Dryden Theatre on October 6, 2011, as part of the “Wish You Were Here” travel photography lecture series.

Peter Ostrum, who starred as ‘Charlie’ in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, shares what it was like to be on the magical set of the film that has captivated generations of audiences. Captured November 26, 2011.

Curator Todd Gustavson talks about the Museum’s new book, 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation on Nov. 19, 2011

Renowned collector W.M. Hunt discusses the Museum’s current exhibition, ‘The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection’. The exhibit, one of the largest in Eastman House history, is on view Oct. 1, 2011 through Feb. 19, 2012.

For more information, visit http://www.eastmanhouse.org/exhibitions/the-unseen-eye

In conjunction with the recent exhibition “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera” (June 25th-September 18th, 2011),  Jeremy Clowe of the Norman Rockwell Museum shared some stories behind the celebrated painter’s iconic works on August 7th, 2011.

Jeremy focuses his talk on the people who modeled for Rockwell’s paintings- ordinary folks of the small Northeastern U.S. towns Rockwell inhabited, whose faces have come to be recognized by millions.

In case you missed the “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera” exhibition, which ran June 25th-September 18th, 2011, you can still learn a great deal about Rockwell’s use of the camera to plan and organize his paintings.

A former executive editor of Aperture and senior editor of Portfolio magazine, today Schick is a researcher, designer, independent curator, and museum consultant. On July 28, 2011, he gave an illustrated talk sharing his research that helped create the exhibition and offered insights into Rockwell’s working process.

Click here to listen to Ron’s insights about Rockwell’s process.

Dr. Cherchi Usai returns to George Eastman House this month, resuming his position as Senior Curator of Motion Pictures and Director of the Eastman House’s L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation— the country’s first school of film preservation. Cherchi Usai served as director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) from 2004 to 2008, and in 2009 established the Haghefilm Foundation to support research on film preservation technologies and curatorship. The NFSA Board of Governors appointed him as Curator Emeritus in 2010.