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For Immediate Release - Jan. 8, 2007
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(585) 271-3361 ext. 213
Eastman House explores war and the photograph with exhibition Know War Images from collection span 1855 to current war in Afghanistan
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film explores the relationship between war and the photograph with a survey exhibition titled Know War, on view Jan. 20 through April 22, 2007.
The exhibition of more than 30 images is drawn entirely from Eastman House’s collections, depicting war from the advent of photography to the present, featuring iconic images from 1855 — of the Crimean War, one of the earliest images of war ever produced — to 2006 images from Afghanistan. Other wars and conflicts depicted in the exhibition include the Civil War, World War II, Korea, the Czech uprising, and Vietnam. The exhibition showcases masterpieces by such photographers as Edward Steichen, George N. Barnard, Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, David Douglas Duncan, Josef Koudelka, Susan Meiselas, and Louie Palu. Know War is part of the Eastman House series titled “Witness: Know War/Know Genocide.”
“Almost since its invention, the camera has been used to record the most difficult aspects of the human condition: war and its aftermath, genocide, and famine,” said Dr. Alison Nordström, Eastman House’s curator of photographs. “Today’s barrage of images on television, in newspapers, and online reminds us that things persist in the present as much as in the past. We invite you to explore how photography and photographs make us all witnesses to world events.”
Also on view will be a documentary from the Eastman House motion picture collection titled Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (Lynne Sachs, US 1994, 33 min.); the documentary Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi, an expansive look into the lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq; and a documentary about families of five young American soldiers killed in Iraq titled Never Coming Home (Zac Barr, Andrew Lichtenstein, and Brian Storm, 2004).
For more information about the exhibition, please visit www.eastmanhouse.org or call (585) 271-3361. Admission to George Eastman House is $8 for adults; $6 for senior citizens (60 and older); $5 for students; $3 for children (5 to 12); and free for children 4 and under and museum members.
For additional information or high-resolution images, please contact Dresden Engle at (585) 271-3361 ext. 213
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