Photographs portray social conditions during the Depression and depict the New Deal government programs

Official Images: New Deal Photography

Arts & Photography

Foresta, Merry A.

Stange, Maren

Stein, Sally

Photography & Video

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Irving Penn: Master Images (The Collection of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery)

Stapp, William F.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Smithsonian Institution Press

Fine softcover catalog to accompany exhibit, 95 numbered pps, illustrated with numerous (60+) rarely reproduced full-page photographs.

Man Ray: In Fashion (International Ctr of Photography)

Hartshorn

Univ of Washington Pr

Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype

Wood,John

American Photographs: The First Century

In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. All of their aspirations and commonplace interests converge in the picture of nineteenth-century America vividly brought to life in American Photographs: The First Century.

Smithsonian Inst Natl Museum of

Smithsonian

The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. This largely unknown body of photography (most never before published) represents nothing less than the Smithsonian's effort, in the name of all Americans, to describe and comprehend the world. Open anywhere in these pages to be plunged into the history of our modernity, and see what the Smithsonian deemed important to document and preserve. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable “democracy of images”: Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and much, much more. By recording the act of seeing, and of what was seen, both photography and the Smithsonian have shaped our sense of ourselves, as individuals, as a people, and as a country.

At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Books

Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life. Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya—a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

Biographies & Memoirs

Princeton Architectural Press

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