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The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography is located in Rochester, New York. The museum occupies the former home of George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, and houses a collection of photography and film.
GeorgeEastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the EastmanKodak Co. and invented roll film, which brought photography to the common man. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film, used by early filmmakers Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
Eastman was born in Waterville, New York, some 20 miles southwest of Utica, New York.
Eastman endowed the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, and chose as its first director Alfred Klingenberg, who was succeeded by the American composer and conductor Howard Hanson.
GeorgeEastman, the founder of EastmanKodak Co., is the father of popular photography.
Eastman's inventions brought him fame as well as fortune, and he is noted as one of the greatest philanthropists of the 20th century contributing more than $100 million to charitable causes.
GeorgeEastmanHouse, an international leader in the cause of film preservation, shelters a school of film preservation, which attracts students from throughout the world.
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