At today's Focus 45 lecture in the Curtis Theatre of the George Eastman Museum, Virginia Dodier will discuss Alvin Langdon Coburn: Opening the Doors of Perception.

Why did this internationally acclaimed photographer leave his career to explore mysticism and the occult? Associate Librarian Virginia Dodier will consider this question through the examination of his personal papers and ephemera held in the museum's collection.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-17]