Photography
Coal Miner's Daughter
"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story.
June 2006 |
By Maryalice Yakutchik
Fearing the Worst
A church is bombed. A daughter is missing. A rediscovered photograph recalls one of the most heart-wrenching episodes of the civil rights era.
May 2006 |
By Diane McWhorter
The Power of Prayer
A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years
March 2006 |
By Maura Moynihan
Forgotten Forest
Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago
February 2006 |
By Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell
A Soldier's Story
Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006
February 2006 |
By Christine Dell'Amore
The Big Picture
A well-planned single image yells the story of 20th-century transportation
December 2005 |
By Christine Dell'Amore
A Night at the Opera
Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce
November 2005 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Hiding in Plain Sight
A veteran photographer shows the extraordinary knack that some animals have for...disappearing
October 2005 |
By Laura Helmuth
Cowboys and Artists
Each summer models decked out in period dress give artists a picture of life in the Wild West
July 2005 |
By Devon Jackson
Animal Magnetism
Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the United States, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
June 2005 |
By Cathleen McGuigan
Chief Lobbyist
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers.
June 2005 |
By Anne Broache
Hungarian Rhapsody
In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear
March 2005 |
By Terence Monmaney
Down In Mississippi
The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
February 2005 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Freeze Frame
Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley revealed the hidden structure of falling flakes
January 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Slices of Life
From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how
December 2004 |
By John Loengard
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
April 2004 |
By Merry A. Foresta
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
April 2004 |
By Andrew Curry
Private Eye
Noted for her sensitive photojournalism in postwar magazines, Esther Bubley is back in vogue
March 2004 |
By Beverly W. Brannan
Baghdad Beyond the Headlines
From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city
February 2004 |
By Lois Raimondo
