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    See Here: 3/9/2018

    • Date: March 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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    See Here: 5/25/2018

    • Date: May 25, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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    See Here: 9/29/2017

    • Date: September 29, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Do You See What I See?

    • Date: August 13, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1872" align="aligncenter" width="263" caption="Eyeball 1, by loonyhiker, 2009."][/caption] At some point, everyday, I scan the Internet for stories about photography’s role and impact in culture. It turns out that in addition to all the images that are out there to be seen, there are surprising numbers of reports circulating about the power of those

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    Someone To Watch Over Me: Home Edition

    • Date: November 11, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Surveillance camera found in hallway, 2009, courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption]Note to readers: the "News in the Visual" blog posts referenced below have now been moved to the "What Gets Saved" category on THE BIGGER PICTURE (2/20/2011).Talk about ironic. The whole time I’ve been writing “News in the

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    Picture Perfect? Not All the Games We Play

    • Date: June 9, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While we at the Photography Initiative like to argue that photography changes everything, it’s not always the case. On June 2nd, in a controversial ninth inning call, baseball umpire Jim Joyce denied Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga a shot at making history for pitching a “perfect” game. Joyce—from his point of view behind first base—saw a batter hit a ball, make it

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    See Here: 9/28/2018

    • Date: September 28, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Archives Puzzles: Getting Succ’d In

    • Date: November 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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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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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna Escobedo Cabral

    • Date: August 18, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  21. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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    The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith

    • Date: December 21, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It

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