Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880–1910

Edison Manufacturing Company... Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River (1903, 140 feet, Producer: Edwin S. Porter; camera: Edwin S. Porter, The Library of Congress, Paper Print Collection, neg. no. 1799). From Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880–1910 at Grey Art Gallery at NYU. "...Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880–1910 explores the links—both deliberate and coincidental—between the earliest movies and other American visual art forms at the beginning of the 20th century. The first exhibition to integrate cinema into a history of American art, Moving Pictures features approximately 100 artworks and 50 films."