Curator's Tour of Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum

Name: Curator's Tour of Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum
Start: 2025-08-16T11:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-16T12:30:00-04:00
Location: George Eastman Museum

Schedule

Sat Aug 16 2025 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

George Eastman Museum | Rochester, NY

Join a curator-led tour with Daniel Peacock, assistant curator, Department of Photography, who will discuss two sections of the exhibition Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum. The section “Structures of Knowledge” questions the various ways photography has been used as a tool for documenting, collecting, organizing, and presenting information, while “Backdrops” considers the complex dynamics between photographer and the photographed subject.
Free to members; included with museum admission.
Tickets can be purchased in advance but will also available at the door.
Major support for 75th Anniversary exhibitions provided by the Rubens Family Foundation.
Generously sponsored by Midtown Athletic Club, St. John's, and Leading Edge Advertising & Development.
Image: James Hall Nasmyth and James Carpenter, Plate XXIII: Group of Lunar Mountains, Ideal Lunar Landscape, from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, 1874. Bound volume with Woodburytypes. Purchase. 2000.0408.0001-0024.