Speaking of George Eastman House

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Friends of George Eastman House discuss their connections to the Museum and provide an overview of its collections, programs, and need for support. To learn more, please visit George Eastman House. To donate, please click Donate Now!


PHOTO CREDITS:

    All Photographs © 2007 Ross Whitaker except:

  • THE WIZARD OF OZ, MGM, 1939.
    Courtesy Warner Bros. Inc.
    All motion picture components of this 2007 UNESCO Memory of the World Register inductee are housed at George Eastman House.
  • LUNAR ORBITER CAMERA PAYLOAD, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, ca. 1967.
    George Eastman House collections. Gift of Frank Marussich.
  • Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, b. British, 1830–1904).
    Replica Zoopraxiscope running disc #29 MULE-BUCKING AND KICKING, 13 PHASES, 1893.
    George Eastman House collections. Gift of Kingston-on-Thames Public Library.
  • Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874–1940).
    STEEL WORKER STANDING ON BEAM GIVES ILLUSION OF TOUCHING TIP OF CHRYSLER BUILDING, ca. 1931.
    Gelatin silver print. George Eastman House collections.
    Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine.
  • Martin Parr (British, b. 1952).
    WEYMOUTH, 1999.
    Chromogenic development [Ektacolor] print.
    George Eastman House collections. Courtesy Martin Parr/Magnum Photos.
  • PARVO CINÉMATOGRAPHE [signed by Mary Pickford], Établissements André Debrie, Paris, France, ca. 1908.
    George Eastman House collections. Gift of Charles Rosher.
  • Alvin Langdon Coburn (American, 1882–1966). OCTOPUS, 1912. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman House collections. Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn.
  • The Museum’s 2005 motion picture preservation of THE KEY, American Film Manufacturing Company, 1916.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Restoration supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Aaron Siskind (American, 1903–1991).
    TERRORS AND PLEASURES OF LEVITATION, #37, 1953/print 1972.
    Gelatin silver print.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Museum purchase.
  • Howard Bingham portrait by Douglas Kirkland.
    Courtesy Howard Bingham.
  • Joe Rosenthal (American, 1911–2006).
    OLD GLORY GOES UP ON MT. SURIBACHI, IWO JIMA, 1945.
    Gelatin silver print. George Eastman House collections. ©Joe Rosenthal/Corbis.

    Pictured with ANNIVERSARY SPEED GRAPHIC [Joe Rosenthal’s camera], Folmer Graflex Corporation, Rochester, New York, 1940.
    George Eastman House collections. Gift of Graflex, Inc.

  • GIROUX DAGUERREOTYPE CAMERA, Alphonse Giroux, Paris, France, 1839.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer.
  • Charlie Chaplin in A DOG’S LIFE, First National Pictures, 1918.
    George Eastman House collections.
  • Steve McCurry (American, b. 1950). AFGHAN GIRL, 1984.
    Chromogenic development [Lambda] print. George Eastman House collections.
    Courtesy Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos.
  • Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973).
    PAUL ROBESON AS “THE EMPEROR JONES,” 1933.
    Gelatin silver contact print.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Bequest of Edward Steichen by direction of Joanna T. Steichen.
  • William N. Jennings (American, b. England, 1860–1946).
    FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF LIGHTNING, ca. 1885.
    Gelatin silver print.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley.
  • The Museum’s 2006 motion picture preservation of Bela Lugosi in DAUGHTERS WHO PAY, Banner Productions, 1925.
    George Eastman House collections.
  • Nickolas Muray (American, b. Hungary, 1892–1965).
    [Judy Garland], 1945. Color print, Carbro assembly process.
    George Eastman House collections.
    Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray.
  • The Museum’s 2004 motion picture preservation of THE BIG PARADE, MGM, 1925.
    George Eastman House collections. Courtesy Warner Bros. Inc.

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