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The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise
National Museum of African American History & Culture and National Museum of American History, 2009
Addison Scurlock and his sons, Robert and George, documented Washington, D.C.'s African American community in photographs for 90 years, capturing special events, and creating portraits of leaders, luninaries, newsmakers, and everyday folks that have become iconic images of the black life in the nation's capital.
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American Photobooth
Näkki Goranin with foreword by David Haberstich, 2008
Näkki Goranin documents the invention, technological evolution, and commercial history of the photobooth with extensive illustrations culled from twenty-five years of collecting. Including "Foreword: The Automatic Photobooth in Context(s)" by David Haberstich, Associate Curator of Photography, Archives Center, at Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, 2008
Historian Marcel LaFollette discovered at the Smithsonian a cache of more than sixty never-before-published photographs taken at the Scopes trial. Her research on these photos sheds new light on the proceedings, as well as on the journalists and scientists who gathered for this epic confrontation between science and tradition.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier
Michelle Delaney, 2007
For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier's haunting collection of photographs of Native American performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the turn of the century.
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Close Relations
Shannon Thomas Perich, introduction by Tom And Ray Magliozzi, and Henry Horenstein as photographer, 2007
In Close Relations, noted photographer Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made from 1970 to 1973: a collection of portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery.
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The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family
Richard Avedon and Shannon Thomas Perich, 2007
This publication features never before seen images of the Kennedy family by one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century, Richard Avedon. Smithsonian curator Shannon Thomas Perich culled more than seventy-five images from Richard Avedon’s photographic donations to the Institution, including all of the photographs of the Kennedy family sitting for Harper's Bazaar.
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In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight
Anne Collins Goodyear, introduction by Patty Wagstaff, and Carolyn Russo as the photographer, 2007
A photographic meditation on the beauty of aircraft design by Smithsonian photographer, Carolyn Russo.
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Artists in Their Studios: Images from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Liza Kirwin with Joan Lord, 2007
With rarely seen photography and primary source materials—letters, lists of painting supplies, artists' handwritten notes, exhibit announcements, and other personal effects—this book offers a unique glimpse at the lives and studio spaces of more than seventy-five important American artists.
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In the Cockpit: Inside 50 History-Making Aircraft
Dana Bell, with photographs by Eric Long and Mark Avino, 2007
Captures the feeling of helming these historic craft with big, gorgeous four–color photographs that will give flight enthusiasts a true pilot's eye view of many of history's most important domestic and military airplanes, jets, and helicopters. Featuring images by Smithsonian photographers, Eric Long and Mark Avino.
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A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted
Joanna C. Scherer, 2006
A fascinating look at the life and work of previously unknown woman photographer Benedicte Wrensted. Wrensted settled in Pocatello, Idaho in 1895 and took magnificent photographs of the Northern Shoshone and Bannock peoples of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation that were widely used unidentified and unattributed until Scherer brought the history back to the images.
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On Caves and Cameras
John Van Swearingen IV Norman R. Thompson, featuring photographs by Chip Clark, 2005
Offers insight on various cameras and techniques to utilize when photographing in dark spaces. Featuring images by Smithsonian photographer, Chip Clark.
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Animals Aloft
Allan Janus, 2005
Among the million and a half photographs throughout the collections of the National Air and Space Museum’s archives, exist a surprising number of pictures of animals. This volume presents a selection of the images of the dogs, cats, lions, pigeons - and one woodchuck - from a little-known aspect of aviation history.
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Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief
Frank H. Goodyear III, 2003
This biography reconsiders Red Cloud's life through an examination of more than one hundred photographic portraits of the famed Lakota leader.
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The Land through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Andy Grundberg, 2003
Seductive beauty, promise and myth mingle with America's history and its
technological and economic progress in this collection of landscape
photographs.
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Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue
Paula Richardson Fleming, 2003
These hauntingly beautiful Native American portraits and their accompanying examination provide a comprehensive and tragic history of the tribes whose leaders traveled to Washington in the mid-19th century.
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The Eye of War: Words and Photographs from the Front Line
Phillip Knightley, 2003
This remarkable volume illustrates the photographic history of the changing face of war over 150 years.
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Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye
Katherine Roucoux, 2002
This awe-inspiring photographic voyage of discovery leads the reader through the infinite world of science.
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Juan Rulfo's Mexico
Carlos Fuentes et al., 2002
This comprehensive photographic study presents images taken by Juan Rulfo of his country's rural population, most between 1945 and 1955.
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Women of Our Time: An Album of Twentieth-Century Photographs
Frederick S. Voss, with a preface by Cokie Roberts, 2002
This photographic collection commemorates the seventy-five most inspirational women of the 20th century.
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Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs
William F. Stapp, with essays by Pete Hamill and Milton Esterow, 2002
This collection of one hundred photographic portraits, commissioned and reproduced over the years by ARTnews, chronicles the magazine’s history and a century of the world’s foremost figures.
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A Way into India
Raghubir Singh, 2002
Singh's last great project before his death in 1999, this collection is a colorful culmination of his love affair with India.
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Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe
National Geographic Society, introduction by David Devorkin, with photographs by Eric Long, 2002
This book is a celebration, in brilliant pictures and words, of cosmologies including ancient China, pre-Columbian America, classical Europe, and 20th-century astronomy. Featuring images by Smithsonian photographer, Eric Long.
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At the Controls: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Book of Cockpits
Tom Alison and Dana Bell, with photographs by Eric Long and Mark Avino, 2001
Through the remarkable photographs in this book, flight enthusiasts can experience a true pilot's-eye view of many of history's most important domestic and military airplanes, jets, helicopters and spacecraft. Featuring images from Smithsonian photographers, Eric Long and Mark Avino.
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Sevruguin and the Persian Image: Photographs of Iran, 1870–1930
Frederick N. Bohrer, ed., 1999
This volume illustrates six decades of Antoin Sevruguin's life, during which he sought to create a beautiful photographic record of Iran.
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Hans Namuth Portraits
Carolyn Kinder Carr, 1999
The essential portraits of Namuth’s illustrious friends come to light in this collection of photographs taken between 1950 and 1989.
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Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian
Tim Johnson, ed., 1998
This volume presents more than two hundred of the most compelling images from the vast collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
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Mathew Brady and the Image of History
Mary Panzer, with an essay by Jeana K. Foley, 1997
This examination of Mathew Brady’s work as a portrait photographer explores his documentation of America's famous leaders and luminaries up to and during the Civil War.
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Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots
Carolyn Russo, introduction by Dorothy Cochrane, and National Air and Space Museum, 1997
A collection of black and white photographs featuring women pilots.
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American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
Merry A. Foresta, 1996
Through the Smithsonian’s Charles Isaacs Collection, this volume examines the infancy of photography in America and the tremendous importance of the medium that was embraced by all walks of life.
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Men in America ("American Scene" series, No. 2)
Photographs by Thomas Arndt; text by Larry Heinemann, 1995
An unrelenting look at Arndt's street photographs and his focus on the
American man.
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VanDerZee, Photographer, 1886–1983
Deborah Willis-Braithwaite, with a biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt, 1993
This volume features a collection of nearly two hundred images of New York City's Harlem, taken by photographer James VanDerZee between the two world wars.
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A Picture Tour of the National Museum of Natural History
Robert D. Sullivan and Sue Voss, featuring photographs by Chip Clark, 1991
A photographic tour of one of the mainstays of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Natural History. Featuring images by Smithsonian photographer, Chip Clark.
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