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    Love It! Where Can I Buy It?

    • Date: February 24, 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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    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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    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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    We've Got Mail?

    • Date: January 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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    Come Fly With Me

    • Date: October 21, 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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    Photos Can Turn Down the Heat

    • Date: October 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Natural Gas Fracing, by Melissa Peffs."][/caption] Photography is valued for, among other things, seeing what the human eye cannot. From medical scans to red light cameras to artworks made by image makers offering up new perspectives, photography reminds us that there’s always more to observe than we’re physically able to

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  13. I Am My Own Commodity

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to

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    Lost and Found

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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    Everyone into the White House Photo Pool!

    • Date: May 28, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Barack Obama and health care executives leave the State Dining Room of the White House following a press statement May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson."][/caption] A few days ago, watching TV and seeing Barack Obama face yet another gaggle of photographers and

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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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  21. Rudi Gernreich, 1967, by Boris Chaliapin, National Portrait Gallery.

    Who Wore What and When?

    • Date: August 31, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,

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