George Eastman House

43.152147222222 - 77.580277777778Koordinaten: 43 ° 9 ' 8 " N, 77 ° 34' 49 " W

The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York is the world's oldest museum of photography and a major film archive. The museum, which was founded in 1947 and opened in 1949, is located on a stately mansion, inhabited George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company from 1905 until his death in 1932.

History

The house itself was George Eastman built as a spacious mansion in colonial style on a more than four acres of grounds, 1902-1905 for themselves. In his will, he of the University of Rochester granted a ten-year right of use. After the Second World War, the university handed over the estate to a fiduciary Foundation, which designed the museum operation, realized in 1947 and managed until today. In 1949, the museum, still made ​​time when George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, the public. The first director of the George Eastman House was General Oscar Solbert. He was supported by Beaumont Newhall, who was able to build from 1948 to 1958 as curator and from 1958 to 1971 as director of the museum one of the most important photographic collections in the world.

First time in 1955 was the George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film- lent, were honored with the first exclusively former sizes of silent film.

1966 was declared the George Eastman House for National Historic Landmark.

Between 1985 and 1990, the George Eastman House has been extensively refurbished and modernized. In the course of gardens were also originally present on the premises reinvested and new buildings, through which the museum has to offer could be extended. So a cinema with 535 seats, was put into operation, inter alia, to the Dryden Theatre, in which nitrate films are listed. The cinema is today place the award of the George Eastman Award. Newly added are also a technical exhibition and a specialist library. Events, such as readings or concerts complement the museum has to offer.

The George Eastman House is home to the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of The Film Preservation, a leading institution and training center for film and photo preservation, restoration, and archiving.

The Collection

The Museum now houses more than 400,000 photographs and negatives, over 23,000 films and over three million film stills (ie scene photos that were taken during filming or production photos that document which filming ), plus 43,000 other publications and more than 25,000 technical exhibits. The museum's collection includes almost all the great photographers of the past 100 years. Famous in the collection represented contemporary photographers Steve McCurry, Robert Frank, Nickolas Muray, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado and Manuel Rivera- Ortiz. The basis of the museum is the collection of the French photographer Gabriel Cromer, which was acquired in 1939 by the Eastman Kodak Company.