Inventions often arrive when most needed.A union of chemistry and light, ideas and imagination, photography was a direct response to modern society`s insatiable need for a universal system of visual communication and information. But photography was much more.It has transformed how we see and know the world and ourselves.

George Eastman House opened in 1949 as a museum dedicated to photography, tecnology, and motion pictures. Its original mission centered on preservation,education, and presentation.