Results for "Book talks"
Cut and Paste, Old Style
- Date: September 13, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were
Just Published! Photography Changes Everything
- Date: August 8, 2012
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Archives announces the publishing of the book, Photography Changes Everything, by Marvin Heiferman, and based on the click! online photo project.
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What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It
- Date: December 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various
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Be It Ever So Humble. . .
- Date: September 2, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2154" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Model picture of suburbia, by Flickr member John Wardell (Netinho)."][/caption] Forget the fact—if you’re lucky enough to be able to—that real estate today is dominated by talk about dropping prices, shaky derivative products and foreclosures. Instead, think positive, and about the central role photography
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Everyone's a Curator, Now
- Date: November 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Cybill Shepherd at the "Castle" during the filming of "Chances Are," where she plays an SI curator, 1988, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Negative Number: 88-10752-31. "][/caption] The frequency with which the words “curator” and “curating” pop up continues to
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Pictures of Pictures
- Date: March 9, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Heard Museum Gift Shop, by Daniel Greene, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Slide Carousel: Loading Slides into the Carousel 5, by rosefirerising, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] How does photography change the ways we look and learn about
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Author! Author!
- Date: June 20, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which
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Smooth Operator
- Date: April 11, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.