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	General

Smithsonian Photography Initiative
An ever-expanding view into more than 150 years of photography collecting throughout the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Photographic Services
The Smithsonian's central source for the creation and distribution of images

Smithsonian Research Information System: Photographic Image Gallery
The Image Gallery includes over 138,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Galaxy of Images
Gathers more than 10,000 images from the Libaries' collections into a single site that can be searched and browsed


	Art and Artists



			American Art Photo Study Collections Contains nearly a half million negatives, photographs, and slides. The images document American art from the colonial period to the present

			Peter Juley Collection Comprised of 127,000 negatives, it is a visual record of American art and artists photographed between 1896 and 1975



			Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs Online exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery


	History and Culture



	American History Museum Photography Collections Some 150,000 images capture the history, art, and science of photography

	Archives Center: Historical Photograph Collections Photographs whose subject content relates to the various curatorial fields of the American History Museum

	Eliot Elison Photographic Archives Research and reference center devoted to the collection, preservation and dissemination of visual materials that encourage and support the study of the arts, cultures, and history of Africa

	National Anthropological Archives Collection of historical and contemporary anthropological materials including photographs

	A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1964-1971 More than 60 photographs document the 1960s, from music in California and Woodstock, to commune life in New Mexico

	Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album A 19th century artist's collection of photographs and illustrations relating to Native Americans and the West



	Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis Capturing American Indians as they lived before contact with Anglo cultures

	Historic Pictures of the Smithsonian Institution Images from Smithsonian museums and research centers

			Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974 Photographs of the Nixon White House before, during, and after Watergate

	Smithsonian Scrapbook: Letters, Diaries and Photographs from the Smithsonian Archives A cultural look at the history of the Smithsonian

	South Africa 1936-1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee A look at one the work of one of the foremost photographers of her generation

	The Presidential Inaugural Smithsonian documentary photographs


	Landscape and Nature Photography



	Contemporary American Landscape Photography Featuring ninety works by thirty-nine artists, this online collection displays a range of recent photographic landscapes, from stunning panormas and majestic views to nuclear waste sites



	Living Fossils of the Deep: An Expedition to the Bahamian Sea Floor Scientists explore both the present and the past through the natural history of deep-sea organisms and microorganisms

	Nesting Sea Turtles and Costa Rica's Tropical Rainforest Photographer Laurie Minor-Penland describes her trip to Costa Rica


	History of Photography



	American Photographs: The First Century Presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier



	American Daguerreotypes This online tour includes portraits, landscapes, and occupational daguerreotypes. A large selection of nineteenth-century literature about the daguerreotype is available, as well as excerpts from the 1995 SAAM publication and exhibition, Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype


	Portrait Photography



	A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist The life of one of the few identified African American daguerreotypists

	Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus The rediscovery of American Indian portraits

	David Geary's Photographs of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe in Korea, 1954

	Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis Part photographic essay, part ethnographic survey, and part work of art, Curtis' North American Indian Project represented an attempt to capture images of American Indians as they lived before contact with Anglo cultures

	George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace Remembering Marshall and the leaders with whom he helped shape history for much of the twentieth century

	Hans Namuth: Portraits A sample of the portraits that the photographer created from 1950 to 1990



	Mathew Brady’s Portraits A selection of daguerreotypes celebrating the artist's style

	Native American Portraits A gallery of influential Native Americans

	Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective Sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians that appeared in big picture magazines

	Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in his Time Celebrating the man whose prose has influenced countless writers of the 20th century

	Tete a Tete: Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson An unrivaled photographic record of our time

	Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century A retrospective about the man whose progressive ideas significantly shaped our national character

			Women of Our Time: Twentieth–Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery Online exhibition


	Museums

American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
19th-21st century photography

American History Museum
History, art, and science of photography

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Contemporary and modern art photography

Natural History Museum
Photography reflecting nature and human cultures

Portrait Gallery
Portraits photography of distinguished Americans and Mathew Brady Collection


	Programs

Studio Photography classes offered by The Smithsonian Associates

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