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George Eastman House Acquires Thomas Shillea Platinum Portfolio

BETHLEHEM, PA.- Fine Art photographer, art educator, author, photographic historian and master Platinotype printer, Tom Shillea recently had twenty of his platinum / palladium photographs from his ‘Magenta Night’ project placed into the permanent collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. The George Eastman House is the oldest museum of photography and the repository of some of the wor ld’s most renowned photographic collections. During Shillea’s graduate studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the late 1970’s he was introduced to the work of Photo-Secession photographers during an internship in the Exhibitions Department at the George Eastman House. He also learned how to make platinum prints, the medium of choice of the Pictorialist photographers. These two experiences would prove seminal to his work as a photographer and artist