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Silver and Water opens this weekend at the museum. The exhibit contains 19 large format black and white gelatin silver prints and a 16mm video. One of the pieces in the gallery that immediately caught my attention is an image submerged in a large pond of water in the middle of the space. Over time the image will begin to disintegrate – as the emulsion softens the silver will lift up to create a new kind of negative, right in front of our eyes.

Silver and Water is an installation by Los Angeles artist Lauren Bon and her Metabolic Studio Optics Division.  The prints were created by the Liminal Camera, a life size pinhole camera –find out more.

Entrance Gallery, George Eastman House

Take a look at a handful of the pinhole cameras (and their matching image) from our Camera Obscura exhibit:
 

Stereo Pinhole Camera

Stereo Pinhole Camera Image

 

Dry Plate Pinhole Camera

Dry Plate Pinhole Camera Image

8x10 Pretzel Can Pinhole Camera

8x10 Pretzel Can Pinhole Camera Image

4x5 Film Box Pinhole Camera

Robot Cam Pinhole Image

 

Speed Graphic Pinhole Camera

Speed Graphic Pinhole Image

Check out this short clip from the local news with Todd Gustavson our technology curator taking a look at the inside of the Tactical Camera. One of only two models ever made, this camera is what all digital cameras were derived from.

Big box of a memory card shown above

More on our new historic acquisition here.

A tool from every photographer’s darkroom

Sally Mann’s Developer Tray, 2011 © John Cyr

Eastman House recently acquired 13 photographs by John Cyr from his series Developer Trays. The series documents the important, albeit utilitarian, tool of every photographer’s darkroom. Six of the

archival pigment prints were generously donated by the Catherine Edelman Gallery. Six others were purchased with funds from the Charina Foundation. The 13th print, George Eastman’s Developer Tray, was donated by the photographer.

Ansel Adams’s Developer Tray, 2011 © John Cyr

Cyr explains, “I am photographing available developer trays so that the photography community will remember specific, tangible printing tools that have been a seminal part of the photographic experience for the past hundred years…” 

George Eastman’s Developer Tray, 2011 © John Cyr

Have a very merry holiday from our house to yours.

McCall Homemaking Cover, Xmas Tree

Accession Number: 1971:0048:0038
Maker: Nickolas Muray (American 1892-1965)
Title: ”MCCALL HOMEMAKING COVER, XMAS TREE”
Date: 1944
Medium: ”color print, assembly (Carbro) process”
Dimensions: Dimensions Unknown
George Eastman House Collection