Results for "Space photography"
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Some Further Thoughts About Photography And the Smithsonian
- Date: October 18, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846, by Unidentified photographer, Daguerreotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Image ID: AFS 140."][/caption] In 2000, as an answer to the question, “does the Smithsonian have
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Link Love: 8/31/2018
- Date: August 31, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- 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.
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The Archives of Visibility
- Date: February 11, 2010
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Vintage Shutterbugs
- Date: May 26, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States
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Link Love: 1/9/2014
- Date: January 9, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Remembering Autochrome
- Date: November 20, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Autochrome color photography process is highlighted and explained.
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Link Love: 2/5/2010
- Date: February 5, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?
- Date: January 20, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: A few days ago, I went to an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar to see for myself if the movie is a “game-changer,” as many have suggested. And, it is, but in a way no one seems to be focusing on—the way it acknowledges and exploits photography’s power to shape both everyday and alternate realities. What struck me, as soon as the movie started, was how sophisticated the film’s
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Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View
- Date: May 11, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above
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Are You There?
- Date: July 29, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,
True Colors
- Date: November 21, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.
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No We Can't
- Date: December 16, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.