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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

9/10/2012 A DC Event Celebrates the Publication of PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING

8/8/2012 Just Published! Photography Changes Everything

9/28/2011 The Good Wife

9/20/2011 The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

9/13/2011 Cut and Paste, Old Style

8/31/2011 Who Wore What and When?

8/15/2011 With a Little Unpaid Help From My Friends

8/8/2011 Rosa Parks' Archive and Some Controversies Around It...

8/3/2011 Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

7/15/2011 An Accidental Archivist...

7/6/2011 Location! Location! Location!

6/27/2011 Shape-Shifting and Sharing Data

6/20/2011 Author! Author!

6/16/2011 Hey You, Get Off Of My Cloud!

6/8/2011 Google Halts an Archiving Project

5/30/2011 The Mercury's Rising. Again.

5/23/2011 But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

5/16/2011 Illegible, She Wrote

5/9/2011 You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

4/27/2011 Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

4/11/2011 Smooth Operator

3/30/2011 In Her Own Image

3/24/2011 I Am My Own Commodity

3/1/2011 Lost in the Stars? Not Now.

2/16/2011 Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.

2/10/2011 For All the World to See

2/2/2011 Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever

1/11/2011 We've Got Mail?

1/5/2011 Ditched Once, Loved Still

12/29/2010 Magical Mystery Tour

12/15/2010 What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It

12/7/2010 Archiving a Dream

11/22/2010 Games People Play, Then Save

11/15/2010 Everyone's a Curator, Now

11/1/2010 Saving Face About Saving Data

10/25/2010 Tag! You're Saved!

10/21/2010 Come Fly With Me

9/16/2010 Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There

8/18/2010 Lost and Found

8/11/2010 Beating Hearts

7/15/2010 Can We Just Forget It?

7/8/2010 Made You Look!!!

6/23/2010 Holding on to Virtual Worlds

6/16/2010 Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

6/9/2010 Picture Perfect? Not All the Games We Play

5/31/2010 A New Look at Home Movies

5/19/2010 Most Likely to be Succeeded

5/18/2010 With Eyes (and Other Data Receptors) Open Wide

5/11/2010 Memories are Made of This

4/27/2010 Them Bones

4/20/2010 Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

4/13/2010 Both Sides Now

4/6/2010 Seen From the Edge

4/2/2010 I'll Show You Mine.

3/30/2010 Miami Nice

3/18/2010 When Photos Stop Being Pictures

3/16/2010 The Whole World's Watching: Photography & Terrorism

3/11/2010 A Photographer, Not a Terrorist

3/9/2010 Pictures of Pictures

3/3/2010 Less is More With Compressed Scanning

3/2/2010 Didn't You Just Love the Picture? I Did.

2/24/2010 Love It! Where Can I Buy It?

2/23/2010 Will the Real Georgia O'Keeffe Please Stand Up?

2/16/2010 Please Mr. Postman

2/15/2010 Up In the Air: The New 9/11 Photos

2/14/2010 Looking for love

2/9/2010 Everything Always Looks Good Through Here

2/2/2010 Photography Murdered Painting, Right?

2/1/2010 Looking Death in the Face

1/26/2010 Shake It, Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture

1/20/2010 Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?

1/19/2010 Forget Me Nots

1/12/2010 In Living Color

1/11/2010 Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!

1/6/2010 A Second Round of "Firsts"

1/5/2010 Unsolved Mysteries

1/1/2010 Happy New Year! Some Photographs of Firsts

12/31/2009 Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

12/30/2009 To have and to hold (snap) . . .

12/23/2009 A Tongue-Twisting New Photo App

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