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    Up In the Air: The New 9/11 Photos

    • Date: February 15, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Untitled, 2001, by Susan Watts, Digital photograph, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Courtesy of Susan Watts/New York Daily News, Image No. watts012."][/caption] Given how quickly photographs are spread by the news and social media, we’ve come to

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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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    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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    Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

    • Date: August 3, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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    A Photographer, Not a Terrorist

    • Date: March 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Starting last fall, stories started popping up in the British media and online about photographers who’d been stopped by officials empowered to question and search them if they seemed suspicious or might have some links to terrorism.

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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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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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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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    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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    The Whole World's Watching: Photography & Terrorism

    • Date: March 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Privacy And Control, by Michael Pickard, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] It’s a sign of the times that we’re being watched often and everywhere. Surveillance, a word that once summoned up all things intrusive and sneaky, is part of everyday lexicon and experience.

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