WILLIAMSBURG, VA.-The Muscarelle Museum of Art presents Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection, on view through January 8, 2006. Eloquent Vistas features 78 nineteenth-century photographic landscapes. Ranging from the l850s to the end of the nineteenth century, and from the East to the vast "new" West, the images include daguerreotypists' views of Niagara Falls, remnants of Civil War landscapes, and quiet eastern streams. Among the photographers featured in this exhibition are what are now famous American photographers, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, William Henry Jackson, John Moran, and Carlton E. Watkins. These men documented the land for government-sponsored geological and geographical surveys, for the railroad companies, and for the tourist trade. These works are now national icons of photography.

Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection was organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. This exhibition is made possible by the Business Exhibition Council of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. David Wooters, Associate Curator and Head of Archive the George Eastman House, will present a gallery talk on Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collectionon Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 5:30 p.m.