Photo exhibit at Eastman Museum documents the lives of the wealthy.
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Rule breaker, fun maker
“This is probably my last solo show,” says photographer Dan Neuberger of the current exhibit of his work at Image City Photography Gallery.” I’m 86, and shows are a lot of work and expense. So I decided to show my favorites — the ones that I’m particularly fond of.” Born in the former Yugoslavia (now […]
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Foregrounding artifice
Much like photography, accounts of the past have a tendency to project a sense of authority. We may absorb each as bare fact, instead of what it really is: an account, a version, a distortion through an individual or cultural lens. The current exhibit of David Levinthal’s photographs in the Eastman House’s Project Gallery explores […]
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Theater of the wild
You could spend your life in pursuit of genuine wilderness, without the promise that you’ll ever actually experience it. The buffer between humans and the rest of the natural world is, if incomplete, fairly ubiquitous, even when we don’t detect it at first. The revelation of this illusion is what kicked off “Glass Mountains,” Sean […]
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The future of film
Enthusiasts still relish the rush of finishing a roll and the fixer-laden smell of the darkroom.
Gallery: Readers share their film photos.
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It had to be hue
The ubiquitous phrase “In Technicolor” was present throughout my youth on title cards at the beginning of favorite films, from the transporting “Wizard of Oz” to Disney’s animated hit, “Dumbo.” A fascinating new exhibit at Eastman House explores the history, technology, and artistry of Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation at its hundredth anniversary. The exhibit has […]
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“Arabat Spit/Healing Muds” by Sergiy Lebedynskyy
The current show at Lumiere Photo’s Spectrum Gallery offers Rochester audiences a rare glimpse at a photo movement presently unfolding on the other side of the world. “Arabat Spit/Healing Muds” is a set of deceptively contemporary images by young Ukrainian photographer Sergiy Lebedynskyy, which explores a public spa as a metaphor for his country’s difficult […]
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Projection and perception
Visual Studies Workshop’s current show isn’t really representative of Tara Merenda Nelson’s film work, most of which is in Super 8 format and tends to follow a “film diary” tradition: “intimate portraits of friends and family, travel diaries, confessions, secrets, that type of thing,” she says. Just three strange, cinematic installations comprise the show, each […]
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Robert Burley: “The Disappearance of Darkness”
In “The Disappearance of Darkness,” Canadian photographer Robert Burley explores the rapid dissolution of film manufacturing — and film-related industries — as digital photography technology became more commercially accessible to the masses in the mid-2000’s. The show’s work itself straddles the line between the two worlds; Burley shot the images on sheet film, then scanned […]
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Elegy to an era
Two current exhibits at George Eastman House, held in conjunction, explore the history of imaging innovations from Kodak’s early days up through the present, and show an artistic documentation of the end of film manufacturing. Together, these exhibits provide a full picture of the imaging history of Image City, Rochester’s hand in the development of […]
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Rochester through the long lens
Many photographers can’t resist the allure of abandoned buildings and vacant houses. Shooting images of peeling wallpaper and weathered door frames appeals to beginning and seasoned photographers alike. But City of Rochester photographer Ira Srole says he found it sobering. Srole used to accompany city building inspectors to photograph every room in a house or […]
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ART: The center of the universe
“Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman” by Mickalene Thomas Through October 19 George Eastman House, 900 East Avenue Tuesday-Saturday: 10 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | $5-$12 | 271-3361; eastmanhouse.org. Children spend their lives orbiting their origins, barely conscious of the gravity their parents’ lives have on their own. Much like our […]
