Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There
Description: In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2010, we selected images from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Diana Davies Photograph Collection. Davies began her career as a musician and became a photojournalist in the 1960s. During that time she documented Newport Folk Festivals, anti-poverty and Civil Rights movements, and farm workers' struggles. Her images,
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: [caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Prehistoric paintings, Lascaux caves, France. Photo courtesy of Prof saxx, Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Roger Shattuck, teacher, writer, and cultural critic (The Banquet Years, his study of turn of the 20th century French avant-garde stands as one of the best cultural histories ever produced), once wrote