Articles tagged as Photography | Smithsonian Magazine

A Photographer’s 40,000-Mile Journey to Find What Peace Means to Americans

John Noltner has driven across the country in an effort to document the many definitions of peace

September 30, 2016

Leutwyler spent three weeks in the archives of the Elvis Presley Estate photographing objects, such as this gold-plated microphone (c. 1960).

A New Photo Book Reveals the Objects That Tell the Stories of the Rich and Famous

Photographer Henry Leutwyler usually shoots his camera at celebrities. For this book, he looked at their stuff

September 27, 2016

This photo by Girma Berta on Instagram helped win the photographer a $10,000 grant.

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Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday

From teen moms to slices of street life

September 26, 2016

Adrien Broom photographed a luminous dress in Wentworth Woodhouse, the largest private home in Britain. This image is titled The Forest of Columns.

Photographer Adrien Broom Sheds Light on Old Structures in Her Work

An eerie vision of the luminous magic we find in ourselves

October 2016

A Hadza elder wears a roughly tanned wild-animal skin over a T-shirt. The skin strips on his bow reinforce his weapon while the furs attest to his recent kills. His headband is not traditionally Hadza; members of the tribe have begun to adopt styles from neighboring groups.

Get Face to Face With the Tribes of Tanzania

As safari parks encroach on their ancestral lands, indigenous groups struggle to maintain their ways of life

October 2016

"Butterflies and caiman," by Mark Cowan. Special commendation: Butterflies suck the salt off of an Amazonian caiman's head.

Winning photos capture moments of stark change in the natural world in the Royal Society’s second annual contest

September 14, 2016

Parliament Funkadelic Mothership, "Musical Crossroads" exhibition

Breaking Ground

Exclusive Photography From Inside the African American History Museum Offers a Hint of What Is to Come

Architecture photographer Jason Flakes brings his unique lens to the Smithsonian’s brand new museum

September 14, 2016

Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic "V-J Day in Times Square" photo.

There’s more to the image than meets the eye

September 14, 2016

The fragile crystals are created when alcohol dries.

Art Meets Science

These Stunning Images Capture the Unseen Beauty of Booze

Drink to the magic of polarized light microscopy

September 12, 2016

Zora Neale Hurston by Carl Van Vechten, Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After,1935, printed 1983

These Rarely Seen Photographs Are a Who’s Who of the Harlem Renaissance

Carl Van Vechten captured and archived images of most of the era’s great artists, musicians and thought leaders

September 9, 2016

Bicycle made by Raleigh in the 1980s in 893 pieces

The Innovative Spirit fy17

These Photos of Deconstructed Devices Reveal Their Hidden Beauty

Engineer-artist Todd McLellan finds marvel in blowing out the mundane

September 8, 2016

Eunuchs apply make-up before Raksha Bandhan festival celebrations in a red light area in Mumbai, India, August 17, 2016

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New Project Pairs Modern News Photos with Old Masters

“Recognition,” winner of Tate’s IK Prize, uses machine learning to match artwork with images coming from the 24/7 news cycle

September 2, 2016

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
Photograph by Ansel Adams
Vintage gelatin silver print
Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona

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New Exhibition Shares Rare Ansel Adams Photos of the American West

See breathtaking early works by the iconic photographer

August 29, 2016

Visitors cast shadows on the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, at sunrise.

From Our Photo Contest: Soak Up the Beauty of America’s National Parks

2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service. Enjoy these standout images submitted by our photo community

August 25, 2016

The first photo of Earth from the moon was taken on August 23, 1966.

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Fifty Years Ago, This Photo Captured the First View of Earth From the Moon

And Earth’s view of itself changed forever

August 23, 2016

Murray Buttes may look like an earthbound mesa, but there's a difference: It's on Mars.

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Here’s a Panoramic Glimpse of the Curiosity Rover’s Next Destination

Welcome to Murray Buttes. You are now free to rove about the landscape

August 22, 2016

Jazz Has Never Looked Cooler Than It Does in This New Exhibition

These evocative images by photographer Herman Leonard call to mind a bygone era

August 22, 2016

Jackie Joyner-Kersee by Gregory Heisler, 1988

Commentary

Why We Have to Play Catch-up Collecting the Portraits of Female Athletes

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is setting its sights on the future

August 19, 2016

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Tour the London of Yore With a Gigantic New Photo Map

The London Picture Map brings an old city to new life

July 29, 2016

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How Sojourner Truth Used Photography to Help End Slavery

The groundbreaking orator embraced newfangled technology to make her message heard

July 28, 2016