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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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    Magical Mystery Tour

    • Date: December 29, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.

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    Less is More With Compressed Scanning

    • Date: March 3, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.

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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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    What should “reality” look like?

    • Date: April 6, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Untitled, 2007, © 2007 Jos Stam"][/caption] In selecting participants for click! photography changes everything, one of the issues I wanted to explore was, “Just how photographic do the images of ‘reality’ need to be?” Many people assume that the quantity and level of detail captured in a photographic image—what some

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    Location! Location! Location!

    • Date: July 6, 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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