This hall leads to the world’s leading collection of photography and film, as well as the mansion that Kodak founder George Eastman, the founder of modern photography, called home from 1905 to 1932.
I combine three elements to tell my story here, starting with a display containing a massive portrait of Eastman as a young man on the left hand side of my image. He contrasts in scale, gender, and era to a visitor at right who is about to walk past his photograph. Behind her head, a large projected photograph of a yellow dandelion explodes upon a screen, making it seem as if she may have photography on her mind. Eastman does not seem to see her, nor does she look at him. If he could see her, his eyes might well be drawn to her bright blue shoes that offer a touch of visual incongruity to this image.