Results for "Smithsonian's History Explorer (Website)"
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The Billionaire Club . . .
- Date: December 22, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3314" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Looking, May 2009, by Karthick Ramalingam, Digital photograph, Pentax K200D, www.makkaphotography.com, © Karthick Ramalingam."][/caption] What photography is, how it works, and the ways it has become indispensable in our lives are difficult to pin down. The medium itself keeps changing and trying to figure
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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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What price fame?
- Date: August 5, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Greta Garbo, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1939, National Portrait Gallery, © Estate of Clarence Sinclair Bull"][/caption] Annie Leibovitz isn’t the first celebrity photographer to become as famous as the subjects she shoots (think Matthew Brady, Edward Steichen, and Richard Avedon, to name just a few). But in the last few
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Made You Look!!!
- Date: July 8, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative
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OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight
- Date: April 30, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Waikiki, No.
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Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!
- Date: January 11, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.
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Beautiful Dreamers
- Date: December 15, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3320" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Haggard Family II, February 2005, courtesy of Sandy Puc’ and the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation."][/caption] When we began work on click!, it seemed obvious that somehow, someway, we’d have to find someone to explore how photography impacts our encounters with death. Many writers about
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Saving Face About Saving Data
- Date: November 1, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Sorry, We're Open, by mofo, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Back in May, I wrote about a controversy that surfaced in Europe after privacy advocates revealed that in the act of collecting photographic images for its Street View application, Google was also scooping up private data from the unsecured WiFi
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What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It
- Date: December 15, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various
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Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right
- Date: April 20, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery
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Will the Real Georgia O'Keeffe Please Stand Up?
- Date: February 23, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Georgia O'Keefe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) with Rene Magritte's sculpture "Delusions of Grandeur," 11 November 1977, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1977, Negative Number: 92-1789."][/caption] It is always fascinating
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Miami Nice
- Date: March 30, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: When the names of certain cities are mentioned, photographic images of them pop into your head almost immediately. Washington = buildings on or near the mall. New York = skyscrapers of one sort or another. Paris = the Eiffel Tower. Tokyo = the Ginza shopping and entertainment district. With that thought in mind—and considering the multiple roles photography plays in shaping,