In 2012, the Eastman Kodak Company declared bankruptcy. That same
year, a group of ten photographers from Magnum Photos-Jim Goldberg,
Bruce Gilden, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin,
Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alec Soth, Larry Towell, Alex Webb, and
Donovan Wylie, plus Chien-Chi Chang, who documented the process in
audio and video-established a temporary base of operations in
Rochester, New York, former home to the once-dominant manufacturer
of photographic film. Their goal: to create both a documentary
archive of that city's culture and landscape, and a photo-based
experience engaging its residents; and to investigate a community
of picture-makers comprised not only of Eastman Kodak, but also the
Visual Studies Workshop, George Eastman House, Rochester Institute
of Technology, and the citizens of Rochester. Over the course of
almost three weeks, photographers, students, faculty, and residents
worked together to create a visual record of the city and its
people at a time of significant transition. Nathan Lyons, founding
director of the Visual Studies Workshop, describes the result as
"not only a major documentary project, but a celebration of
photography within the city that had for years been a center of
imaging technologies." Upon arrival in Rochester, Martin Parr gave
each photographer the task of assembling one hundred photographs to
form the basis of an archive. Rochester 585/716 presents all one
thousand images, together with commentary by poets Cornelius Eady
and Marie Howe, art historian and photo theorist Laura Wexler, and
photographer and educator Nathan Lyons. Five sets of the images
were printed as a portfolio, each of which now resides in major
private and public collections. Two artist proof sets were also
created, one of which will be dispersed via the one thousand copies
of this publication. Each individual copy contains a single loose
print, selected at random from this additional set.
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