George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2018
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George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2018 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 8 Photography Workshops 9 Loans 10 Objects Loaned For Exhibitions 10 Film Screenings 15 Acquisitions 17 Gifts to the Collections 17 Photography 17 Moving Image 30 Technology 32 George Eastman Legacy 34 Richard and Ronay Menschel Library 48 Purchases for the Collections 48 Photography 48 Moving Image 49 Technology 49 George Eastman Legacy 49 Richard and Ronay Menschel Library 49 Conservation & Preservation 50 Conservation 50 Photography 50 Technology 52 George Eastman Legacy 52 Richard and Ronay Menschel Library 52 Preservation 53 Moving Image 53 Financial 54 Treasurer’s Report 54 Fundraising 56 Members 56 Corporate Members 58 Annual Campaign 59 Designated Giving 59 Planned Giving 61 Trustees, Advisors & Staff 62 Board of Trustees 62 George Eastman Museum Staff 63 George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Exhibitions Exhibitions on view in the museum’s galleries during 2018. MAIN GALLERIES HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY Stories of Indian Cinema: A History of Photography Abandoned and Rescued Curated by Jamie M. Allen, associate curator, Department of Photography, and Todd Gustavson, exhibitions, Moving Image Department curator, Technology Collection NovemberCurated by 11,Jurij 2017–May Meden, curator 13, 2018 of film October 14, 2017–April 22, 2018 Nandita Raman: Cinema Play House A History of Photography Curated by William Green, curatorial assistant, Curated by Rachel Andrews, assistant collection Department of Photography manager, Department of Photography, and November 11, 2017–May 13, 2018 Todd Gustavson, curator, Technology Collection May 4–October 14, 2018 David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, A History of Photography Department of Photography Curated by Ross Knapper, collection June 1, 2018–January 1, 2019 manager, Department of Photography, and Todd Gustavson, curator, Technology Collection October 20, 2018–April 21, 2019 PROJECT GALLERY Dreaming in Color: MANSION The Davide Turconi Collection of Early Cinema Curated by Joshua Yumibe, guest curator George Eastman: 100 Years Ago January 13–June 24, 2018 Curated by Jesse Peers, archivist, George Eastman Legacy Collection Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window February 9–October 29, 2018 Curated by Lisa Hostetler, curator in charge, Department of Photography From the Camera Obscura to July 7, 2018–January 1, 2019 the Revolutionary Kodak Curated by Todd Gustavson, curator, Technology Collection DRYDEN THEATRE Ongoing (opened April 2016) Surabhi Saraf: Fold March 1–July 1, 2018 Gillian Wearing: Your Views July 3–October 28, 2018 Oliver Beer: Reanimation (Snow White) October 30, 2018–January 1, 2019 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2018 | Exhibitions 2 Traveling Exhibitions Exhibitions organized by the George Eastman Museum and exhibited at other institutions worldwide. Eugene Richards: The Run On of Time Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO December 9, 2017–April 15, 2018 International Center of Photography, New York, NY September 27, 2018–January 6, 2019 In the Garden Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL February 2–April 22, 2018 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2018 | 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 2018 was 33,245 for 323 screenings. In 2018, the George Eastman Museum organized and hosted the 4th Nitrate Picture Show (May 3–6), International Domitor Conference (June 13–16), a symposium dedicated to the study of early the world’s first festival of film conservation. The Dryden Theatre was also the site of the 15th as a venue for the Fast Forward Film Festival (April 14), the Rochester International Film Festival (Aprilcinema, 26–29), including the papers,JCC Ames discussions, Amzalak Rochester and film screenings. Jewish Film In Festival addition, (July the 8–16), Dryden the Theatre 29th annual served Rochester Labor Film Series (September–November), ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film Festival (October 6, 9, and 13), and the Polish Film Festival (October 20, 24, and 27, November 6). L’Chaim: Celebrating Jewish Life (November 25 and December 16) in solidarity with the Jewish community in response to the shootings at the TreeThe Dryden of Life–Or Theatre L’Simcha also Congregationpresented the in film Pittsburgh, series Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018. Celebrating Ernest Borgnine Loveless: The First Three Films ONGOING January 4–February 24 by Andrey Zvyagintsev Rochester Premieres August 15, 22, 29 90 Years of Academy Awards Senior Matinees January 2–April 7 Reinventing Hollywood: David Annually, March–October Bordwell and 1940s Filmmakers Retrospective: The Passion of Philippe Garrel September 13–October 17 Silent Tuesdays January 3–February 28 A Star from the Start: The The Passion of Erich von Stroheim Animation of Jiří Trnka January 16 & 30, February 27 September 5–26 Stories of Indian Cinema: Labor Film Series Abandoned & Rescued September–November January–April Through a Lens Darkly: Horror The Tarnished Badge: Bad Cop Noir Films and Photography March 3–April 5 October 18, 25, 31 After Bedlam: The Mental Institution Film Eastwood as Director April 10–April 25 November 1–December 7 UCLA Festival of Preservation Tour Bergman Centennial May 1–31 November 7–21 Eastman Entertains: At the Movies (Mostly) Happy Holidays May 8–19 November 23–December 27 Perfection Personified: William Wyler Leo Hurwitz: New Preservations June 5–30 November 28–December 19 Youth in Love Jeanette MacDonald: The Iron Butterfly June 6–21 November 29–December 20 War, Myth, Desire: Films that Always at the Dryden Inspired David Levinthal December 28–31 July 4–August 31 Animal House: Crazy Parties in Movie History July 7–August 30 George Eastman Museum Annual Report 2018 | Film Series at the Dryden Theatre 4 Programs & Events Attendance at the George Eastman Museum in 2018 was 119,801. The museum held daily group tours and more than 134 public events, as well as private events for 67 corporate and nonprofit organizations and 363 tours for private groups. PUBLIC GUIDED TOURS Notebook (Marie Menken, 1962), The Workshop (Laurent Cantet, Edith Cuerrier, project cataloger, Melodic Inversion (Ian Hugo, 1958), 2017), presented in collaboration Department of Photography, The Dead (Stan Brakhage, 1960), with the University of Rochester “George Eastman goes to Gallery Tours (Stan Humanities Center as part of its New Foundland,” November 17 Tuesday–Sunday Anticipation of the Night Brakhage, 1958), introduced 2018–19 series “Expertise and Todd Gustavson, curator, Technology by Thomas Beard, director of Evidence," with introduction and Q&A Collection, “Toy Cameras and Mansion Tours Light Industry and publisher of with Stephen Schottenfeld, associate Camera Toys,” December 8 Tuesday–Sunday Metaphors on Vision, presented in professor of English, December 14 collaboration with Visual Studies The Black Maria Film Festival Workshop, February 15 Other Exhibition-Related Programs Garden Tours (various, 2018), with introduction “Dreaming in Color,” gallery talk Tuesday–Sunday, May–September The German Factory (Mimmo and post-screening discussion with Paolo Cherchi Usai, Calopresti, 2008), One for All with Peter Murphey, assistant senior curator, Moving Image (Mimmo Calopresti, 2015), with Mansion Tours in Sign Language Department, January 13 Twice monthly director Mimmo Calopresti, Rochester Institute of Technology, presented by Dr. Elisabetta professor of film and animation, Sanino D’Amanda, Italian Program program selections, December 29 of Photography,” renegade/gallery Garden Tours in Sign Language Coordinator, Department of Modern and filmmaker of one of the tour“From with Self-Portrait Jamie M. toAllen, Selfie: associate A History Twice monthly, May–September Languages and Cultures, Rochester curator, Department of Photography, Focus 45 Talks Institute of Technology, March 22 and Kate Meyers Emery, manager Kathy Connor, curator, Legacy of digital engagement, January 17 TALKS/LECTURES Time Will Tell—Leipzig and Elsewhere, Collection, “Eastman Museum 1989–2015 (Andreas Voigt, 2015), Rescue Stories,” January 20 “Cinema Memories,” renegade/ When We Were the Future—Seven gallery/projection booth tour Artist Talks Heather Shannon, associate curator, Stories from a Vanished Country (Peter with William Green, curatorial David Levinthal, photographer, Department of Photography, Kahane, Thomas Knauf, Andreas assistant, and Spencer Christiano, June 1 and Amanda Chestnut, artist, Voigt, Hannes Schönemann, Gabriele chief projectionist, February 1 “Frederick Douglass and His Gail Albert Halaban, photographer, Denecke, Ralf Marschalleck, Lars Photographic Legacy,” February 10 July 6 Barthel, 2015), followed by discussion Playing in Color, hands-on activity and live radio broadcast from Project with director Andreas Voigt and Jesse Peers, archivist, Legacy “Looking for Frederick Douglass: Gallery with WAYO FM, February 18 Resources in Libraries, Museums, producer Barbara Etz, April 21 Collection, “George Eastman in 1918,” March 24 “Behind the Scenes of and Archives,” panel discussion with Tomka and His Friends Dreaming ,” gallery talk with Nick Heather Shannon, associate curator, Keko, 1977), introduced by Heather Shannon, associate