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Indepth Arts News:
"The Eventful Camera"
1999-07-24 until 2000-02-06
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY,
USA United States of America
George Eastman
House's first curator,
Beaumont Newhall,
wrote in the
mid-1950s of an
exhibition of Eventful
Cameras, that is to
say, cameras that
have a story with
them. The display
would include both
cameras that
recorded significant
events and those used
by notable
photographers,
cinematographers,
and innovators. The
Eventful Camera,
opening Saturday,
July 24, takes
Newhall's idea
further, illustrating the
interrelationship of the
Museum's individual
collections. The
exhibition of notable
photographic and
motion picture
apparatus will be
complemented with
artifacts from the
photography, motion
picture, library, and
Eastman collections
and will trace the
history of
photography and
early cinema.
The Eventful Camera
will display the first
commercially sold
camera in the United
States, a
daguerreotype
camera purchased by
Samuel Bemis in
1840, along with
several
daguerreotypes he
made with that
camera and the
original bill of sale.
Also on view will be
the Parvo movie
camera used by
Charles Rosher to
film Mary Pickford in
the film Pollyanna
(1920); cameras used
by renowned
photographers such
as Mathew Brady,
George Eastman,
Alfred Stieglitz, and
Alvin Langdon
Coburn; and Ansel
Adams's first camera,
a Kodak No. 1
Brownie, given to him
by his parents on his
first trip to Yosemite
National Park in
1916. The Eventful
Camera is made
possible through a
generous gift from
Enid and Jack
Naylor.
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