Results for "American Picture Palaces (Motion picture : 1983)"
- Blog Post
When Good People Love Bad Pictures
- Date: August 19, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1954" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Squirrel Kisses, by Flickr user (Alex)."][/caption] It’s summer, so time for a break from serious thoughts about photographs, their meaning and impact. Instead, let’s relax and have a laugh about the pictures that make us laugh. A recent article in the business section of Time magazine describes how Ben
- Blog Post
For All the World to See
- Date: February 10, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.
Link Love: 3/7/2014
- Date: March 7, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009523, A. Gilbert Wright Oral History Interviews, 1983
- Date: 1983
- Creator: Wright, A. Gilbert, (Arthur Gilbert), 1909-1987, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 90-117, Smithsonian Institution Office of Special Events, Records, 1983
- Date: 1983
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Mapping the Moon
- Date: May 19, 2009
- Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 22-100, Archives of American Art, Board of Trustees Records, 1970-1999
- Date: 1970 1970-1999
- Creator: Archives of American Art
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Capturing Panama with Carl C. Hansen
- Date: June 15, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Today is Nature Photography Day, so we’re highlighting the career and work of Smithsonian photographer Carl C. Hansen.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 03-026, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1982-1983, 1987
- Date: 1982 1982-1983 1982-1983, 1987
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Life & Death. Still & Moving Pictures.
- Date: July 23, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marey Wheel Photographs of Unidentified Model, with Eadweard Muybridge Notations, by Thomas Eakins, 1884, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden."][/caption] Please be aware that some of the photographs included in links within this post may contain graphic and emotionally disturbing material. Which are more powerful,
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-220, Jones, Meredith L, Meredith L. Jones Papers, 1965-1983
- Date: 1965 1965-1983
- Creator: Jones, Meredith L.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.
- Date: February 16, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes