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The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian

Marvin Heiferman

Marvin Heiferman

Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman served as the chief editor and creative consultant for The Bigger Picture blog from 2009-2011, and was the creative consultant to the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, now a part of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, from 2005 to 2011. During his time at the Photography Initiative he conceptualized and curated click! photography changes everything.

Blog Posts

12/22/2009 The Billionaire Club . . .
12/16/2009 No We Can't
12/15/2009 Beautiful Dreamers
12/9/2009 Upon Closer Inspection . . .
12/8/2009 Politics: Prettier When Pictured
12/2/2009 Who Wears Short Shorts?
12/1/2009 Wish You Were Here?
11/24/2009 Still Photographs That Make You Want Moving Ones
11/23/2009 The Shadow of Your Smile
11/18/2009 Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?
11/11/2009 Someone To Watch Over Me: Home Edition
10/29/2009 Remembering Jessie Cohen
10/20/2009 Photos Can Turn Down the Heat
10/9/2009 And the Winner Is . . . Photography!
10/1/2009 Coming into Focus
9/25/2009 The More I See You, the More I Want You
9/17/2009 Love Thy Neighbor's Mug Shot
9/11/2009 Here Comes the Revolution?
9/2/2009 Be It Ever So Humble. . .
8/28/2009 That Picture Looks Great On You
8/19/2009 When Good People Love Bad Pictures
8/13/2009 Do You See What I See?
8/5/2009 What price fame?
7/30/2009 Who do you trust?
7/23/2009 Life & Death. Still & Moving Pictures.
7/17/2009 For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...
7/10/2009 Look at Me! No. Look at You!
7/1/2009 Look! Up In the Sky! It's . . .
6/30/2009 Gone, But Not Forgotten
6/25/2009 Someone to Watch Over Me . . .
6/18/2009 Augmented Reality? Something Wrong With That?
6/5/2009 Meanwhile, back on earth... A Slideshow
6/2/2009 Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!
5/28/2009 Everyone into the White House Photo Pool!
5/26/2009 Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…
5/6/2009 OMG! That’s My Dress: Prom Night Edition
4/30/2009 OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight
4/20/2009 Let Freedom Ring?
4/17/2009 Stop. Or They’ll shoot!
4/10/2009 Here's Looking at You, Closer . . . Photography and Radiology
4/6/2009 What should “reality” look like?
3/23/2009 Kodak Girl
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