The museum itself is situated in the elegant mansion of George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company.
The institution is the world’s oldest museum dedicated to photography.
Its photography collections and motion picture film archives are legendary and responsible for preserving much of 20th-century visual history.
A statute of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been donated to, and displayed at, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. (Photo:Renee Veniskey/George Eastman Museum)
This is where Phil belongs.
He is on the move, a script in his bag, walking toward the theater he so loved.
Hoffman’s mother, Marilyn O’Connor, approved of the loving memorial to her beloved son.
The statue honors the great actor in his hometown after his untimely death. (Photo:Renee Veniskey/George Eastman Museum)
The Eastman Museum’s decision to retain the sculpture makes me very happy, she said.
There was an enthusiastic response to having this beautiful statue of Phil at the museum.
This is what the Rochester community wanted.
There was a lot of silence after Phil died, Tobin said.
He was with us, so brilliant, so powerfully present, and then he slipped away.
I wanted to keep the light going.
I wanted Phil’s family to know the impact he had on me and the world.
The statue honors the great actor in his hometown after his untimely death.
