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  1. A Second Round of "Firsts"

    • Date: January 6, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: We found so many interesting photos of “firsts” as we put together our post to celebrate New Year’s Day, we thought we’d post a second group of firsts. We hope you enjoy another slideshow of images of the curious and unique. Click on the image to begin the slideshow.

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  3. Looking for love

    • Date: February 14, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Across the Smithsonian, in hundreds of photographic collections, you’ll find images that document historic objects and events, species on land and under the oceans, cultural achievement, and data that streams in from outer space on a daily basis.

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    Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

    • Date: May 26, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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    Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!

    • Date: June 2, 2009
    • 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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  9. Happy New Year! Some Photographs of Firsts

    • Date: January 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: In many cases, after photography was introduced to the public in 1839, if an event seemed like it might be unique, it is likely that someone (or, more recently, something) was there to photograph it. Even today, when cameras are positioned to photograph repetitious things or situations—cars at traffic lights, luggage at airports, shoppers lingering around merchandise on

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    Everyone into the White House Photo Pool!

    • Date: May 28, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Barack Obama and health care executives leave the State Dining Room of the White House following a press statement May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson."][/caption] A few days ago, watching TV and seeing Barack Obama face yet another gaggle of photographers and

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    Look! Up In the Sky! It's . . .

    • Date: July 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Cascading Light, by Terry Mann."][/caption] It was 3 o’clock in the morning and something out of the ordinary was happening. And good neighbor that she is—although it might not seem that way to all of you—Terry Mann grabbed her camera then started waking people up. There wasn’t anything wrong in the neighborhood, but she

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    You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some

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    OMG! That’s My Dress: Prom Night Edition

    • Date: May 6, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Graduating class from The Calverton School, Huntingtown, Maryland, by unidentified photographer, 1977, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Archives Center"][/caption] "It’s kind of a bummer when you look so beautiful and somebody has the same exact one as you," says a high school senior quoted in a recent

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    Let Freedom Ring?

    • Date: April 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_564" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Taft Voting, by Bain News Service, publisher, 1912, Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2442-16"][/caption] It’s against the law to photograph certain things, at certain times, in certain places. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently reported that a photograph of an election ballot in a mayoral race—showing the name

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    OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight

    • Date: April 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Waikiki, No.

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  23. Photography Changes Everything, Edited by Marvin Heiferman

    A DC Event Celebrates the Publication of PHOTOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING

    • Date: September 10, 2012
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Marvin Heiferman is doing a book signing of Photography Changes Everything at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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