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Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Pool  the photographic resources of nearly 20 galleries, museums, observatories, and research centers. Craft a stylish browser that viewers can use to hop from image to image, tagging those they like, zooming in on details, and accessing background information with the click of a mouse. Do all that, and you get the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. Designed to "open new doors" to the museum's vast collections of photos, this online venture encourages you to feel at home with pictures from the earliest days of camera portraiture to today's unposed shots. In one visit, we skipped from a dignified 1898 platinum print of a Sioux Indian to a 2001 smudgy snap of a black widow pulsar from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We took in photos of blues musicians, documentary images from South Africa in the mid-1940s, and a sun-shot reflection of soldiers writing home in 1918. And that was just the beginning. (in Photography) |
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