article_snippet: Eastman was not related to the George Eastman family of Eastman Kodak fame.
article_snippet: Rather, Eastman father, Leopold Vail Epstein, was the son of Jewish Russian immigrants and had changed his name to Eastman.
article_snippet: After high school, Eastman headed west and was living in Arizona where a friend encouraged Eastman to take an art history course at the Tucson Art Center with Hazel Archer.
article_snippet: Hazel Archer introduced Eastman to the great photographers Walker Evan, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and told Eastman to 'Borrow a camera, buy a roll of film and take pictures'. '
article_snippet: Eastman inspired me to become a photographer, because of the photographs Eastman showed me, unlike fashion photography, the great photographers Walker Evan, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams were photographs of life, of people, of sadness, of poverty, of nature, everything
article_snippet: Back in Manhattan, Eastman's photographic break came while working as a receptionist at Town and Country Magazine.
article_snippet: Eastman used an extra invite to a Rolling Stone promotional party to shoot pictures of the band.