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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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    With a Little Unpaid Help From My Friends

    • Date: August 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Late in July, LENS, a New York Times blog that focuses on images and issues photographic, posted an interesting story by James Estrin. Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative photo agency founded after World War II by photographers including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson, announced that to boost the visibility (and paid use) of the hundreds of thousands of images it

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  5. A woman photographs a panda.

    Remembering Jessie Cohen

    • Date: October 29, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: At SPI, we were sad to learn that Jessie Cohen died earlier this week. Jessie was one of the photographic mainstays at the Smithsonian; she started working at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1979, photographing animals, their living quarters, and behind-the-scenes events for exhibition, education, and marketing purposes. In addition, Jessie also managed the Zoo’s exhibition

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    Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever

    • Date: February 2, 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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    In Her Own Image

    • Date: March 30, 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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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    Saving Face About Saving Data

    • Date: November 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Sorry, We're Open, by mofo, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Back in May, I wrote about a controversy that surfaced in Europe after privacy advocates revealed that in the act of collecting photographic images for its Street View application, Google was also scooping up private data from the unsecured WiFi

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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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    Looking Death in the Face

    • Date: February 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Moseley, Greenwood Cemetery, 1998, by Titus Brooks Heagins, Digital photograph, Anacostia Community Museum, Titus Brooks Heagins Collection, Gift of Titus Brooks Heagins, © 1998 Titus Brooks Heagins, PH 2005.7010.01."][/caption] At one point, early in CNN’s round-the-clock television coverage of Haiti after the earthquake

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    Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There

    • Date: September 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: We’ve all got storage issues to confront. And when we do, some people take great pleasure in getting things organized and others get headaches. A small percentage descend into madness, while an equally small group see and then seize the business opportunities that are generated by the need to keep life, things, and information under control. Over the past few weeks, the

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    Archiving a Dream

    • Date: December 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or

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    Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?

    • Date: January 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A few days ago, I went to an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar to see for myself if the movie is a “game-changer,” as many have suggested. And, it is, but in a way no one seems to be focusing on—the way it acknowledges and exploits photography’s power to shape both everyday and alternate realities. What struck me, as soon as the movie started, was how sophisticated the film’s

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