George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2017
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George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2017 Contents Exhibitions 2 Traveling Exhibitions 3 Film Series at the Dryden Theatre 4 Programs & Events 5 Online 7 Education 8 The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation 8 Photographic Preservation & Collections Management 9 Photography Workshops 10 Loans 11 Objects Loaned For Exhibitions 11 Film Screenings 15 Acquisitions 17 Gifts to the Collections 17 Photography 17 Moving Image 29 Technology 35 George Eastman Legacy 37 Purchases for the Collections 39 Photography 39 Moving Image 39 Technology 39 George Eastman Legacy 39 Conservation & Preservation 40 Conservation 40 Photography 40 Technology 44 George Eastman Legacy 44 Richard and Ronay Menschel Library 44 Preservation 44 Moving Image 44 Financial 46 Treasurer’s Report 46 Fundraising 48 Members 48 Corporate Members 50 Matching Gift Companies 51 Annual Campaign 51 Designated Giving 52 Honor & Memorial Gifts 53 Planned Giving 54 Trustees, Advisors & Staff 55 Board of Trustees 55 George Eastman Museum Staff 56 George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Exhibitions Exhibitions on view in the museum’s galleries during 2017. Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road Lucinda Devlin: Sightlines ONGOING Curated by Helen Molesworth, chief curator, the Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, From the Camera Obscura to Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Department of Photography the Revolutionary Kodak organized for the George Eastman Museum Project Gallery Curated by Todd Gustavson, curator, by Jamie M. Allen, associate curator, June 24–December 31, 2017 Technology Collection Department of Photography Second Floor Galleries, Mansion Project Gallery A History of Photography October 1, 2016–January 8, 2017 Curated by Jamie Allen, associate curator, Department of Photography, and Todd Gustavson, A Matter of Memory: Photography curator, Technology Collection as Object in the Digital Age History of Photography Gallery Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, October 14, 2017–April 22, 2018 Department of Photography Main Galleries Stories of Indian Cinema: October 22, 2016–January 29, 2017 Abandoned and Rescued A History of Photography Moving Image Department Curated by Heather Shannon, assistant curator, MainCurated Galleries by Jurij Meden, curator of film exhibitions, Department of Photography, and Todd Gustavson, November 11, 2017–May 13, 2018 curator, Technology Collection History of Photography Gallery Nandita Raman: Cinema Play House October 29, 2016–April 30, 2017 Curated by William Green, curatorial assistant, Department of Photography Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday Main Galleries Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, November 11, 2017–May 13, 2018 Department of Photography Project Gallery William Kentridge: Tide Table January 21–June 11, 2017 Moving Image Department Robert Cumming: The Secret Life of Objects DrydenCurated Theatreby Jurij Meden, curator of film exhibitions, Curated by Sarah Bay Gachot, February 1–June 7, 2017 independent curator Main Galleries Alexandre Larose: brouillard passage #14 February 18–May 28, 2017 Moving Image Department A History of Photography DrydenCurated Theatreby Jurij Meden, curator of film exhibitions, Curated by William Green, curatorial assistant, October 24, 2017–March 1, 2018 Department of Photography, and Todd Gustavson, curator, Technology Collection History of Photography Gallery May 12–October 8, 2017 Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, Department of Photography Main Galleries and Dryden Theatre June 10–October 22, 2017 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2017 | Exhibitions 2 Traveling Exhibitions Exhibitions organized by the George Eastman Museum and exhibited at other institutions worldwide. Colorama Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY November 11, 2016–January 1, 2017 Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, Lake Charles, LA June 23–September 9, 2017 Eugene Richards: The Run On of Time Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO December 9, 2017–April 15, 2018 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2017 | Traveling Exhibitions 3 Film Series at the Dryden Theatre Film series curated by the Moving Image Department and presented at the Dryden Theatre. Attendance at the Dryden Theatre in 2017 was 35,250 for 341 screenings. In 2017, the George Eastman Museum organized and hosted the 3rd Nitrate Picture Show served as a venue for Fast Forward Film Festival (April 1), Rochester International Film(May Festival 5–7), the (April world’s 20–22), first festivalthe JCC ofAmes film Amzalak conservation. Rochester The Dryden International Theatre Jewish also Film Festival (July 9 & July 15–16), Fringe Festival (September 19), ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film Festival (October 7 & 14), and the Polish Film Festival (November 7). Celebrating Ernest Borgnine Barry Lyndon and the Exquisitely ONGOING January 4–February 24 Re-created Period Drama Primal Screen May 24–June 30 with Senior Curator of the Moving Image First Contact Department Paolo Cherchi Usai January 5–February 9 Tricks through Time July 5–August 1 Museum Treasures Three Films by Alain Resnais January 17, February 11 & 18 America’s Favorite Pastime New Restorations July 6–August 30 Films by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Rochester Premieres February 3–22 Preserved with the Help from the National Endowment for the Arts Senior Matinees Choreography for Camera July 26–August 31 Annually, March–October February 14–March 28 First War on Film Silent Tuesdays Holocaust: Affect and Absence September 2–October 21 March 1–April 26 Labor Film Series Survey of Contemporary Italian Cinema September–October March 2–17 Andy Warhol and Friends 12 Postcards from Prison October 4–25 March 4–April 28 Man of Iron: Remembering Andrzej Wajda Painting with Light: Tribute to Vittorio Storaro October 5–November 7 March 9–April 30 RIP Romero The Phantasmagorical Worlds November 1, 15, 29 of Steven Woloshen April 7 Hitchcock in Winter November 4–December 9 Against All Demands: Remembering Andrzej Żuławski Tribute to Vittorio De Seta May 2–26 November 8 Against Status Quo: Mr. Capra Goes to the Dryden Late Works by Želimir Žilnik November 16–December 31 May 9 & 16 Stories of Indian Cinema: Against Modernity: Two Films by Eugène Green Abandoned & Rescued May 31, June 9 November 9–May 2018 Eastman Entertains: At the Movies A Taste of Terayama May 9–20 December 13, 20, 27 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2017 | Film Series at the Dryden Theatre 4 Programs & Events Attendance at the George Eastman Museum in 2017 was 114,940. The museum held daily group tours and more than 145 public events, as well as private events for 69 corporate and nonprofit organizations and 363 tours for private groups. PUBLIC GUIDED TOURS Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, Focus 45 Talks Other Exhibition-Related Programs 2015), with panel discussion in Todd Gustavson, curator, A Matter of Memory: Photography partnership with Bivona Child Technology Collection, as Object in the Digital Age, gallery Gallery Tours Advocacy Center, April 10 “The Kodak DCS: 25 Years of tour with William Green, January 14 Tuesday–Sunday Digital Photography,” January 21 The Illinois Parables (2016), Robert Cumming: The Secret Life Mansion Tours followed by discussion with director Jesse Peers, archivist, Legacy of Objects, gallery tour Tuesday–Sunday Deborah Stratman, April 14 Collection, “Yours Very Truly: with independent curator An Exploration of George Eastman’s Sarah Bay Gachot, February 18 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Correspondance,” February 25 Garden Tours (2016), followed by discussion Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday, Tuesday–Sunday, May–September with director Brett Story, April 28 Renegade Tour, February 23 Image Department, “Film Projection (Michael Palm, Cinema Futures 101:Tim Wagner, The Passionate film technician, Projectionist,” Moving Robert Cumming: The Secret 2016), introduced by Alexander , gallery tour with Mansion Tours in Sign Language March 11 Life of Objects Twice monthly Horwath, director of the Austrian William Green, March 18 Film Museum, and followed PPCM Master’s Essay Manhattan Wednesday, by panel discussion, May 4 Presentations, April 8 Garden Tours in Sign Language collaboration with Rochester Twice monthly, May–September Logbook_Serbistan (2015), William Green, curatorial assistant, Cocktail Revival in conjunction followed by discussion with Department of Photography, with Richard Renaldi: “Photography and Architecture,” Manhattan Sunday, May 3 TALKS/LECTURES May 13 directorBroken Specs Želimir (2012), Žilnik, Travel May 16Plans Eugene Richards: The Run-On (2013), (2015), Stephanie Hofner, researcher, , gallery talk with Artist Talks Going Out Short of Time Richard Renaldi, photographer, Stay (2016), followed by discussion “Louis M. Condax and the Kodak Eugene Richards, Lisa Hostetler, with director Ted Fendt, June 16 Dye Transfer Process,” June 17 and April Watson, June 9 Manhattan Sunday, January 20 Alejandro Cartagena, Bull Durham (1988), introduced by Claudia Pretelin, art historian, Eugene Richards: The Run-On photographer, March 2 writer/director Ron Shelton, July 6 “From the Kodak Girl to the Kodak of Time, gallery tour with Snapshot: Kodak Advertising photojournalist Arlene Thayer, (2016) Lucinda Devlin, photographer, The Rain Will Follow 1920–1940,” July 22 July 15 and other shorts, introduced Sightlines, June 23 Mark Osterman, process historian, Eugene Richards: The Run- Tabitha Soren, photographer, Eugene Richards, July 19 “The Making of Motion Picture On of Time, community August 9 by filmmaker/photographer