Results for "Publishing"
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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Hey You, Get Off Of My Cloud!
- Date: June 16, 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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That Picture Looks Great On You
- Date: August 28, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2114" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="Flickr Photographer T-shirt with Flickr Badge, photo by Ritsa, from RobW_'s Flickr photostream."][/caption] Not only are photographs everywhere, but they’re on everything. And you, too, can contribute to the picture pile-up.
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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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With Eyes (and Other Data Receptors) Open Wide
- Date: May 18, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: In a storm of reporting, hundreds of articles published online and in print over the past couple of days, have focused attention on a story that touched on issues both photographic and archival.
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Can We Just Forget It?
- Date: July 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Eraser, by Sarah McKenzie, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] An interesting story surfaced about a week ago, concerning an over-eager defense lawyer anxiously seeking to expunge not only governmental, but media archives, too, of potentially damaging information or previously published articles about a number
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Who do you trust?
- Date: July 30, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1641" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="why? dia doscientos catorce, by Flickr member, Andrea"][/caption] Last weekend, I was working, editing a short essay about the rise of “citizen journalism” by Fred Ritchin, author of the recently published After Photography, which we’ll be uploading soon on click! photography changes everything.
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Seen From the Edge
- Date: April 6, 2010
- 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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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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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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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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Both Sides Now
- Date: April 13, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her 1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with