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George Eastman House, an independent nonprofit museum, is an educational institution that tells the story of photography and motion pictures-media that have changed and continue to change our perception of the world. We: George Eastman House The George Eastman House * Collect and preserve objects that are of significance to photography, motion pictures, and the life of George Eastman. * Build information resources to provide the means for both scholarly research and recreational inquiry. * Keep and care for images, literature, and technology to tell the story of photography and the motion picture in history and in culture. * Care for George Eastman's house, gardens, and archives, maintaining them for public enjoyment and as a memorial to his contribution to our lives and our times.

Photography Collections Online: A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House. Select any of the section headings to explore the items we have digitized to date.

"The Passion of Walker Evans" By: Daniel Mark Epstein, New Criterion, March 1, 2000 America's infatuation with photography has thrived upon its easy accessibility. By 1903, the year Walker Evans was born, George Eastman had made the roll-film camera so cheap that soon no family reunion or Sunday picnic need ever lack a "photo artist" to immortalize it. Amateur camera societies and photo exhibitions sprang up in cities and towns from coast to coast. And while professionals like Alfred Stieglitz fought for "the serious recognition of photography as an additional medium of pictorial expression," arguing that the photographer's gift, like the painter's, was privileged vision, the larger public remained quite content with the belief that one person's photo was pretty much as good as another's.