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    Kodak Girl

    • Date: March 23, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="Edmonia Lewis, National Portrait Gallery"][/caption] In Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia (2000), Nancy Martha West describes how the company—marketing the first box cameras in the 1890s—aggressively targeted female consumers, hoping they’d “see photography not only as a necessary component of domestic life but as an integral

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    Magical Mystery Tour

    • Date: December 29, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    Location! Location! Location!

    • Date: July 6, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Most Likely to be Succeeded

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Posing with a yearbook picture of myself, by Billy Mabray, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I’m a fan of yearbooks. I was an editor of mine in college, a somewhat unusual, multi-volume, and boxed object that included two books, a booklet, a brochure, and (it being the late sixties) a balloon. Back then, we

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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    Wish You Were Here?

    • Date: December 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they

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    Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

    • Date: August 3, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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