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Kodak City

Catherine Leutenegger2007-12

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

In its prime, Kodak employed thousands of people and turned Rochester into a wealthy town. After the digitalization of photography, the business declined. Catherine Leutenegger’s ‘Kodak City’ series, reveals what remains of Kodak as a business and the ways in which the decline of the company impacted the city of Rochester. It is a testimony that is both engaged and objective, covering a part of America’s industrial heritage that faces inevitable disappearance. It is also a way of paying homage to the father of modern photography, George Eastman (1854 -1932) in his hometown, which he transformed into the cradle of the world’s collective memory for the entire 20th century.

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  • Title: Kodak City
  • Creator: Catherine Leutenegger
  • Date Created: 2007-12
  • Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
  • Location Created: Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
  • Exhibition title: An unbearable lightness of being
  • Exhibition Description: A sense of dystopia, unease, maybe even giggly laughter, hysteria, melancholy, or even pictures of the unnoticed
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Catherine Leutenegger is a visual artist based in Switzerland. She has won several awards for her work which include the Manor Kunstpreis, Prix de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture 2018, the Raymond Weil International Photography Prize and the Swiss Design Awards 2006 and 2008.
Chennai Photo Biennale

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