Named after George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Company, the George Eastman Museum, is dedicated to photography and cinema. The museum opened in 1949, making it the oldest photography museum in the world. For those who can't make the trip to Rochester, New York, anyone can explore the almost 130,000 photographs that have been digitized by the museum here. This collection includes photographs spanning throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and encompassing genres. To best explore this collection, visitors can select Advanced Search and check the Image Available box (the catalogue also includes over 100,000 images that have not been digitized). From here, visitors can search by Object, People, or Exhibition. This impressive and diverse collection includes works from turn of the century French photojournalist Charles Chusseau-Flaviens; the pioneering artistic photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn; child welfare photographer Lewis P. Hine; and others.
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