Eastman House Hosts Exhibition in NYMore than 200 unique and historically significant artifacts will be presented together for the first time at the Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film as an exhibition titled The Best of Photo and Film: Right Before Your Eyes. The exhibit will run through Apr. 11, 2004. The motion picture collection spotlights clips from some of its most prestigious restorations including Peter Pan (1924), The Lost World (1925), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and The King of Kings (1927), as well one of its newest Napoli che canta (1926). Mathew Brady's portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the first photograph of lightning, celebrity portraits by Nickolas Muray and Arnold Newman, Alfred Stieglitz's "The Steerage," and Robert Capa's "D-Day, Omaha Beach” are included in the photography display. Other treasures include the film score for Metropolis (1926), scripts for The Ten Commandments (1923) and Call Her Savage (1932), a 3-strip Technicolor camera (ca. 1933) and Charles Rosher's 35mm camera autographed by Mary Pickford (1908). Several cameras are featured alongside significant photographs, including the first commercially sold camera, a Daguerreotype outfit (1840); the first Kodak camera (1888); Ansel Adams's first camera, a Brownie (ca. 1901), and his Kodak Vest Pocket (ca. 1916); Alfred Stieglitz's Eastman View No. 2D Camera (1922); Joe Rosenthal's Anniversary Speed Graphic that captured the famous photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima (1944); and a NASA Lunar Orbiter (1966). The George Eastman House is located at 900 East Avenue in Rochester, NY. For more info about The Best of Photo & Film, visit: www.eastman.org/ |
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