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Gabrielle Obusek

Gabrielle Obusek is the public affairs specialist for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. 

Peter Cooper and Family, unidentified daguerreotypist, three-quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

“Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits” and “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples”

Two Exhibitions of Early American Photography on View in July

Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.

“I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women”

National Portrait Gallery Announces Season Four of Its PORTRAITS Podcast

“Birthright” (still) by Maren Hassinger, 2005. Single-channel video (color, sound), 12:12 mins. Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Premiere of “Birthright” by Artist Maren Hassinger

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