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George Eastman Museum

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The George Eastman Museum, the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York. [1]

71 relations: Adam Fuss, Aeolian-Skinner, Alan Valentine, Alexander Gardner (photographer), Alvin Langdon Coburn, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Anthony Bannon, Archive, Beaumont Newhall, Benjamin Rush Rhees, Bruce Barnes (executive), Candida Höfer, Carleton Watkins, Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Chili, New York, Cindy Sherman, Colonial Revival architecture, Conservation and restoration of photographs, David Levinthal, Democrat and Chronicle, Dryden Theatre, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Steichen, Electric generator, Elevator, Ephemera, Facade, Film, Film preservation, Gannett Company, George Eastman, George Eastman Award, George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection, Georgian architecture, Gillian Wearing, J. Foster Warner, James Card, James L. Enyeart, Kibibyte, Kodak, Lewis Hine, McKim, Mead & White, Mickalene Thomas, Museum, National Historic Landmark, Negative (photography), New Topographics, New York (state), ..., Nickolas Muray, Nitrocellulose, Ori Gersht, Oscar Solbert, Photograph, Photographers of the American Civil War, Photography, Pipe organ, Robert A. Mayer, Robert J. Doherty, Rochester, New York, Southworth & Hawes, Technology, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, University of Rochester, Van Deren Coke, Victor Keppler, Vik Muniz, William Henry Jackson, William Kentridge, 35 mm film. Expand index (21 more) »

Adam Fuss

Adam Fuss (born 1961) is a British photographer.

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Aeolian-Skinner

Æolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts was an American builder of a large number of pipe organs from its inception as the Skinner Organ Company in 1901 until its closure in 1972.

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Alan Valentine

Alan Chester Valentine (February 23, 1901 – July 14, 1980) was an American academic who competed on the gold-medal winning American rugby union team in the 1924 Summer Olympics, was president of the University of Rochester, and served in the Truman Administration as a Marshall Plan official and as the first head of the Economic Stabilization Agency.

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Alexander Gardner (photographer)

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession.

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Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early 20th-century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist.

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Anthony Bannon

Anthony Bannon (born December 6, 1943) was the seventh director of the George Eastman Museum He officially retired in May 2012 after 16 years at the Eastman Museum, the longest tenure in the museum's history.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Beaumont Newhall

Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 – February 26, 1993) was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum.

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Benjamin Rush Rhees

Rev. Benjamin Rush Rhees (1860–1939) was the third president of the University of Rochester, serving from 1900-1935.

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Bruce Barnes (executive)

Bruce Barnes (born March 15, 1962 in Los Angeles) is the eighth director of the George Eastman Museum, founder of Leeds Art Foundation, and a former business executive, investment banker and investment fund executive.

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Candida Höfer

Candida Höfer (born 1944) is a Cologne, Germany-based photographer and a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

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Carleton Watkins

Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century.

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Charles Chusseau-Flaviens

Charles Chusseau-Flaviens was a French independent photojournalist of the ca.

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Chili, New York

Chili is a town in Monroe County, New York, USA.

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Cindy Sherman

Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits.

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Colonial Revival architecture

Colonial Revival (also Neocolonial, Georgian Revival or Neo-Georgian) architecture was and is a nationalistic design movement in the United States and Canada.

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Conservation and restoration of photographs

The Conservation and restoration of photographs is the study of the physical care and treatment of photographic materials.

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David Levinthal

David Levinthal (born 1949) is a photographer who lives and works in New York City.

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Democrat and Chronicle

The Democrat and Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving the greater Rochester, New York, area.

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Dryden Theatre

The Dryden Theatre is located at the George Eastman Museum, in Rochester, New York in the United States.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.

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Edward Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator.

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Electric generator

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit.

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Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

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Ephemera

Ephemera (singular: ephemeron) are any transitory written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved.

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Facade

A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Film preservation

Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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George Eastman

George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.

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George Eastman Award

The George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film was established by the George Eastman Museum in 1955 as the first film award given by an American archive and museum to honor artistic work of enduring value.

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George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection

The George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection in Rochester, New York comprises about 28,000 titles, including features, shorts, documentaries, newsreels, and experimental moving images.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing OBE RA (born 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, the Turner Prize, in 1997.

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J. Foster Warner

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James Card

James Card (October 25, 1915 – January 16, 2000) was a film preservationist who established the motion picture collection at George Eastman House, one of the major moving image archives in the United States.

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James L. Enyeart

James Lyle Enyeart (born January 13, 1943 in Auburn, Washington) is an American photographer, scholar and museum director.

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Kibibyte

The kibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for quantities of digital information.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography.

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Lewis Hine

Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer.

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McKim, Mead & White

McKim, Mead & White was a prominent American architectural firm that thrived at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American artist best known for her complex paintings made of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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Negative (photography)

In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.

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New Topographics

"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" was an exhibition that epitomized a key moment in American landscape photography.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl 15 February 1892 – 2 November 1965, New York City) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer.

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Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, and flash string) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.

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Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht (born 1967) is an Israeli fine art photographer.

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Oscar Solbert

Oscar Nathaniel Solbert (January 22, 1885 – April 16, 1958) was an American general, business executive and the first director of the George Eastman Museum.

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Photograph

A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic medium such as a CCD or a CMOS chip.

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Photographers of the American Civil War

The American Civil War was the most widely covered conflict of the 19th century.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Robert A. Mayer

Robert A. Mayer (born 1933; died December 2, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ) was the fifth director of the George Eastman Museum (then George Eastman House) from 1981 to 1989.

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Robert J. Doherty

Robert J. Doherty (born 1924) is an American photographer, scholar, and museum professional.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Southworth & Hawes

Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863.

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".

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Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 – January 14, 1882) was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.

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University of Rochester

The University of Rochester (U of R or UR) frequently referred to as Rochester, is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

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Van Deren Coke

Frank Van Deren Coke, F. Van Deren Coke, or Van Deren Coke (July 4, 1921 – July 11, 2004) was an American photographer, scholar and museum professional.

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Victor Keppler

Victor Keppler (1904 – 2 December 1987) was an American commercial photographer and author.

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Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz (born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist and photographer.

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William Henry Jackson

William Henry Jackson (April 4, 1843 – June 30, 1942) was an American painter, Civil War veteran, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.

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William Kentridge

William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films.

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35 mm film

35 mm film (millimeter) is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography (see 135 film).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman_Museum

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