Sharon Core (American, b. 1965). 1606, 2011. Inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery. © Sharon Core

In the Garden

George Eastman Museum presents gardens flooded with sunlight. In the Garden, an exhibition As quickly became that discusses the relationships accepted as a method for Participation Fee: $40,000 + between photography, botanical recording the world, Round trip shipping and Insurance images, and the cultivated became stand-ins for landscapes Booking Period: 12 Weeks landscape. that most people could not visit, allowing the gardens of China Contents: 150+ photographic Photography has captured how and Japan to be brought back to prints of various processes (gelatin humankind has used gardens Europe for enjoyment. from the 19th-century to today. silver, chromogenic, albumen, Some of the first photographs Drawn from the vast Museum etc.) were of plant collection, the photographs Size: 350 linear feet (approx) materials—direct records of the in this exhibition explore uses structures of botanical specimens. of gardens and how humans Availability: Ongoing However, nineteenth-century cultivate the landscapes that photographers also called upon surround them. From famous the artistic tradition of still life locations such as Versailles to the paintings, capturing compositions simplest home vegetable garden, of floral bouquets or objects in from worlds imagined by artists a garden. This practice quickly to food production recorded extended to portraiture, as many by journalists, the subjects in early photographic processes this exhibition broaden our required vast amounts of light for understanding of photography a good , and subjects and how it has been used to were therefore often posed in record gardens.

Contact: Rachel Andrews, Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator • (585) 271- 3361 ext. 382 [email protected] • 900 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14607 • eastman.org Barbara Norfleet (American, b. 1926).Liz Bishop, Ellen Tully, Ann Cobb, Ginny Fairbank, Connie Holden, Joanne Kronauer, and Ruth Glover planting at Longfellow House, 1985. From the series Cambridge Plant and Garden Club: The Oldest Garden Club in America. Gelatin silver print. Museum. Purchased with funds from Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. © Barbara Norfleet

Unidentified photographer. Two Japanese women in flower garden, ca. 1900. Albumen silver print with applied . George Eastman Museum. Acquired by exchange.

Ori Gersht (Israeli, b. 1967). Blow up: Untitled 7, 2007. Chromogenic development print. George Eastman Museum. Purchased with funds Henry Troth (American, 1863–1948). White-Fringed Orchis Hab. from Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. © Blephariglottis, ca. 1900. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum. Gift of Adelheid Z. Lacy. Tanya Marcuse (American, b. 1964). Fallen No. 496, 2013. Inkjet print. George Eastman Museum. Purchase with funds from Charina Foundation Endowment. © Tanya Marcuse

Unidentified photographer. Woman reading in garden, 1912. Autochrome. George Eastman Museum. Gift of 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley.

Andrew Buurman (British, b. 1966). Allotments, 2009. Inkjet prints, printed 2012. George Eastman Museum. Purchase with funds from Charina Foundation.

Anna Atkins (British, 1799–1871). Carix (America), ca. 1850. . George Eastman Museum. Purchase with funds provided by Ford Motor Co. and from Margaret T. Morris Foundation.