First Tuesday of Every Month; 7p.m.
FONZ Photo Club
Friends of the National Zoo members now have the opportunity to join the FONZ Photo Club. Benefits of the membership include monthly gatherings with interesting guest speakers and a chance to meet other photographers, opportunities to display your photographs on the National Zoo's website, and more.
National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
October 24, 2008-June 21, 2009
Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers
This poignant exhibition, drawn primarily from the collection of Larry J. West, will feature rare and exquisite jewelry containing portraits in the 19th century's four main photographic processes—daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and paper prints.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
November 26, 2008-September 27, 2009
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
This exhibition will feature six photographers—Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller, and Alex Soth—who, by working on assignment for publications such as the New Yorker, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine, each bring their distinctive "take" on contemporary portraiture to a broad audience.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
January 30, 2009-February 28, 2010
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise
This exhibition features more than one hundred images created by one of the premiere African American studios in the country and one of the longest-running black businesses in Washington.
National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
April 29, 2009-July 12, 2009
I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Inauguration
This exhibition features approximately fifty framed color and black-and-white photographs highlighting the week-long events surrounding the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama.
National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
April 30, 2009-September 13, 2009
Directions: Walead Beshty
Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty creates captivating photographs that blend an enduring fascination with the relics of postwar visual culture and an astute inquiry into the ways that photography shapes people’s understanding of the world.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
May 30, 2009-October 10, 2009
Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants
This exhibition provides a look at life from an ant's point of view through large-format photographs of ants going about their daily business, a cast of an underground ant city, and a live ant colony.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
June 12, 2009-September 13, 2009
Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America
This exhibition features rare and archival photographs and film of Native skaters, as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists, to celebrate the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian skate culture.
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
July 1, 2009-January 17, 2010
World View: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
From over seventeen thousand entries submitted from the United States and around the world to the Smithsonian magazine for its 6th Annual Photo Contest, fifty finalists were selected. The images selected represent the following five categories: The Natural World, People, Americana, Altered Images and Travel.
Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, Washington, D.C.
September 25, 2009-January 24, 2010
Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924
Through one hundred portrait photographs, this exhibition will tell the story of the changes that occurred in the American West during the eighty years between the Mexican War and passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Permanent Exhibitions
Discovering Rastafari!
This exhibition will feature rare photographs, video footage, artifacts, and ephemera to explore the origins and practice of the Rastafari religion in Jamaica and the movement's subsequent spread throughout the African Diaspora and the world.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Renovating a Landmark: From Patent Office to Reynolds Center
This small exhibition, installed in the historic fabric room located adjacent to the coatroom near the museums' F Street lobby, highlights aspects of the renovation with photographs, architectural artifacts from the building and objects discovered during the excavation of the courtyard.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake
Through photographs, maps, ceremonial and everyday objects, and interactives, this panel display provides both an overview of the history and events affecting the Native peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region and information on their continued presence today.
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
The centerpiece of the gallery is the original 1903 Wright Flyer, displayed on the ground for the first time since acquired by the Smithsonian in 1948. Also on view are 250 photographs and 150 other artifacts.
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
