George Eastman Museum (8/27/2024)

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 (continued)

Now to visit the George Eastman Museum.

Colorama #424 Llamas on Hillside in Peru (1977, by Neil Montanus)
 once exhibited at Grand Central Terminal in New York City

Dryden Theater (1950-1951) was built to provide a venue
for screening the museum's moving image film collection

Statue (2022, by David A Annand) of 
Philip Seymour Hoffman, who lived nearby and
attended many screenings at Dryden Theater

Eastman Museum in renovated (2020-2021) stables and garage

The lobby of Dryden Theater

The Palm House provides more
eating for the Open Face Café

Exhibit in Gallery Obscura: Pass Us the Mic: We’ve Got Something to Say in collaboration with Flower City Arts Center:

Gender Discrimination (2023, by Aiyanna Crews),  the
15-year old wants to change how women's sports are supported

Exhibit in the Main Galleries: Crashing into the 60s: Film Posters from the Collection:

Poster for Haslo Korn (1968,
by Eryk Lipinski, Poland)

Billboard-size poster for One, Two, Three
(1961, by Saul Bass) is made of 12 sheets
and is 24 x the size of a standard movie poster

Poster for Revolution (1968) (KSS)

Powdered synthetic dye samples collected
by the Technicolor Motion Picture
Corporation (1929-1975); 1,788 of
a total of 3,037 bottles are on display

The dyes came from chemical companies around the world

Exhibit in the Collection Gallery: Selections from the Collection:

Greyfriars' Churchyard, Dennistoun Monument
(1843-1847, by David Hill and Robert
Adamston) is a salted paper print

Woman (c 1850, by Albert Southworth and
Josiah Hawes) is a daguerreotype

Gloria Swanson (1924, by Edward Steichen)
is a gelatin silver print and in real life
you can see every thread of the veil

The first of the easy-to-use box cameras: 1888 Kodak
and 1889 Kodak with built-in viewfinder

Pocket Kodak (1895) sold for $5 ($150 today)

Coquette (1930) was a deluxe model of the Vest Pocket
Model B camera that sold with a matching lipstick
and powder compact (design by Walter Teague) 

Instamatic 100 (1963) and Ektralite 10 (1978), which
was the first camera with an integrated electronic flash

Lunar Orbiter Photographic Subsystem (1967)
that included onboard film processing

Exhibit in Project Gallery: New Directions: New Acquisitions:

Lula, Mississippi (1984, by Baldwin Lee)

A glimpse of the Kodak Headquarters
Kodak Tower (1912-1914, by Howard
Wright Cutler and Gordon & Kaelber Architects
in French Renaissance style)

George Eastman Memorial (1934) is located in the former
Kodak Park (now Eastman Business Park), the great
industrial plant he created

Plaque for George Eastman

The ashes of George Eastman are interred
under the central stone; he had wished to be cremated
in order not to take up any real estate...