Dryden Theatre Renovation Series: Seats and Projection Booth
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here: the seats have been fully installed. The seat parts arrived Monday morning and sat in the lobby in boxes as preparations for their installation began....
View ArticleTechnical Breakdown of the Dryden Renovations
Beyond the theater’s plush new seats, fresh coat of paint, new carpets, and enhanced lighting, the Dryden has undergone some serious technological overhauling and upgrading both up in the projection...
View Article50th Anniversary of the Instamatic (1963)
March 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the Kodak Instamatic family of cameras. These cameras, featuring the instant-loading 126 (Kodapack) film cartridge, were by far the most successful of the...
View ArticleMeetup at Eastman House
If you’re an instagrammer in Rochester we’re hosting the next meetup this weekend. Our curator of photographs, Jessica Johnston will give the group a gallery tour of our current exhibit Silver and...
View ArticleWelcome Back Everybody
March 2, 2013 Grand Reopening Night – Shared memories of the Dryden Theatre’s past, and excitement for all that is in store. .
View ArticleEastman House and Google Art Project
update Eastman House is now on the Google Art Project! The initial group of 50 photographs on Google Art Project spans the 1840s through the late 20th century and a wide variety of photographic...
View ArticleApril 15, 1840 – One of the first cameras sold in the U.S.
Receipt of one of the first cameras to be sold in the U.S. Samuel A. Bemis (1793–1881), a Boston dentist and amateur daguerreotypist, bought one of the first cameras ever sold in the United States on...
View ArticleGoogle is in the house
This month Google adds more than 1,000 new destinations to experience via street view. It looks like we are one of the first destinations locally (Rochester, N.Y.) to open our doors beyond the street....
View ArticleMystery nitrate negatives – we need your help!
via guest contributor and Eastman House volunteer, Kate Wallace While cleaning out the nitrate holding room at the museum, boxes of safety film and nitrate negatives were discovered that appear to have...
View ArticleWho’s Talking Gender?
Nickolas Muray (American, b. Hungary, 1892-1965) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. & Joan Crawford ca. 1930 Gelatin silver print Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray The Gender Show is open now (through October) – an...
View ArticleDaguerre Introduced Photography 175 Years Ago
It has been 175 since Louis Daguerre introduced photography to the world. The Giroux daguerreotype apparatus is photography’s first camera manufactured in quantity. On June 22, 1839, L.-J.-M. Daguerre...
View ArticleKodak Camera at 125: Eastman’s First Film Patent
On October 14, 1884, George Eastman received his first “film” patent (#306,594) for Negative Paper. While this was a paper film (not very related to the transparent product most people think of today)...
View ArticleA Piece of History Reborn
In 1995, before I was hired to teach in the conservation department, my wife and I originally came to Eastman House to teach workshops. Back then, we brought a car load of equipment from home—cameras,...
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