Photography

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Making Tracks

On the trail of art thieves and elusive elephants

"I really needed a haircut, so i stepped into Benny White's Arco Barber Shop. I sat down in that old, red chair and received one of the most attentive and quality haircuts of my life. Afterward I thanked White and asked him if he wouldn't mind me taking his portrait."

Through Our Readers' Eyes

SMITHSONIAN's second annual photo contest generates more than 30,000 entries

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A green anole lizard in Hawaii After a daylong drive through Maui, Maize and his wife, Kim, were pulling into a hotel parking space when he discovered the head of a green anole lizard "peeking around the edge of a leaf. I shot about three, four pictures, but [this] one was my favorite."

2nd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2004 contest

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Subway Spy

Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system

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When the Shooting Started

A century and a half ago, Britain's Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography

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Point, Shoot, Submit

Our new and improved photo contest swings into gear

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Tons of Talent

Picking the winner of our first photo contest required a bit of heavy lifting

Art photographer Terry Evans' 2001 colorful homage to museum collections, titled Fields Museum, Drawer of Cardinals, Various Dates.

Photos for All Time

A new book, At First Sight, draws on all the Smithsonian's vast archives to chart photograph's profound place in history

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Flower Child

A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career

GRAND PRIZE WINNER Puerto Vallerta, Mexico • Photographed July 2003 "Just as I snapped the shutter," says Williams, a trumpet player, "this kid ran into the picture.... Wow! I knew I had something very special. It was almost spiritual like going up a stairway to heaven."

1st Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2003 contest

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Profile in Courage

Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment

This image of the Sun's outermost layer, or corona, was taken June 10, 1998, by TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer). The Earth-orbiting NASA spacecraft, launched two months earlier, has an unobstructed view of the Sun eight months of the year. It is helping to solve the mystery of why the Sun's corona is so much hotter (3.6 million degrees Farenheit) than its surface (11,000 degrees Farenheit). TRACE is also shedding light on solar storms, which damage satellites and disrupt power transmissions.

Celestial Sightseeing

From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before

Lord Tennyson

Eminent Victorians

Julia Margaret Cameron's evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture

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Picture This

Five Categories, 50 Finalists, Six Winners

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Shoot, Don't Call

Announcing our first-ever photo contest

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Machine Dreams

A new exhibition reconsiders the industrial photographs of Margaret Bourke-White's early, "rapturous" period

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The Big Picture

Our photographic collections showcase the world from the seafloor to the stars above

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Grim and Beautiful

Learning to love complexity

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No Place Like Home

The Blue Lagoon

Eye in the Sky

A French photographer's aerial portraits of Iceland's Blue Lagoon, cotton bales in Ivory Coast, a tulip field in Holland document a world of fragile beauty

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