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- Blog Post
Them Bones
- Date: April 27, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly
Plan of the First Story of Alice Pike Barney's house in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Date: c. 1889
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
Plan of the Second Story of Alice Pike Barney's house in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Date: c. 1889
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
Plan of the Foundation and Cellar of Alice Pike Barney's house in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Date: c. 1889
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
Plan of the Second Story of Alice Pike Barney's house in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Date: c. 1889
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
Plan of the Roof of Alice Pike Barney's house in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Date: c. 1889
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Creator: Stratton, Sidney V
- Blog Post
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
- Blog Post
The Shadow of Your Smile
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- SI History Chronology
David J. Skorton Named 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian
- Date: March 10, 2014
- Blog Post
What price fame?
- Date: August 5, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few). But in the last few
- Document
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- Blog Post
Love It! Where Can I Buy It?
- Date: February 24, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
