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Photography and America's National Parks

Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916). Yo-wi-ye or Nevada Falls, 1861. Albumen silver print. George Eastman Museum. Gift of Alden Scott Boyer. Photography and America’s National Parks In celebration of the 100th Eadweard Muybridge as well as anniversary of the formation of modernist and contemporary the National Park Service, the photographers like Ansel Adams Participation Fee: $40,000 + George Eastman Museum presents and Binh Dahn. The exhibition Round trip shipping and Insurance Photography and America’s proceeds by surveying the role Booking Period: 12 Weeks National Parks, an exhibition that photography has played in the highlights photography’s role in land conservation movement. Contents: Approximately 150 the development of America’s The final section includes works photographs National Parks. For more than 150 by photographers who revisit Size: 350 linear feet (approx) years, photographs of these vast the place where established spaces have helped us view and views were made in order to Available: Fall 2016 understand these landscapes, demonstrate changes in the from Yosemite to the most recent land and the ways in which our addition of Pinnacles National perception of it has been affected. Park. Photography and America’s Photography and America’s National Parks will bring together National Parks features images of photographs from the George many of the current 59 national Eastman Museum’s collection parks. It begins by tracing the with works from other sources to photographic history of Yosemite, illuminate this history, delighting exploring historic works by viewers with historical information nineteenth-century photographers and beautiful photographs. such as Carleton Watkins and Contact: Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator • (585) 271-3361 ext. 382 [email protected] • 900 East Avenue • Rochester, NY 14607 • eastman.org.

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