click! photography changes everything
click! is a collection of essays and stories by invited contributors and visitors like you that examine how photography shapes the way we understand and interact the world.
Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Visitor Photo Documentation of the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
View slideshows of images submitted by Festival visitors and Smithsonian staff, interns, and volunteers during the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Smithsonian Photography Initiative

A Different Light
An exhibition of Amy R. Boles photographs documenting  the Renovation of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Smithsonian Institution Architectural History and Historic Preservation

America By Air
This online exhibit offers the ability to search or browse images from the America By Air exhibition.
National Air and Space Museum

American Photographs: The First Century
American Photographs offers a wide-ranging selection of photographs from The Charles Isaacs Collection of American Photography.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
From stunning panoramas and majestic bridges to nuclear waste dumpsites, this online exhibition captures the compelling complexity of contemporary landscape photography.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 Cosecha Amarga Cosecha Dulce: El programa Bracero 1942-1964
Through photographs, this exhibition will examine the experiences of bracero workers and their families while providing insight into Mexican American history and historical context to today's debates on guest worker programs.
National Museum of American History

Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
This exhibition surveys two decades of Bosworth’s career, revealing an artist who speaks with a singular passion and sentiment for the American landscape.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924
Through photographic portraits, 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

Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion
Freeze Frame explores the famous photographs of animal and human locomotion taken by photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
National Museum of American History

Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974
These images of President Richard Nixon's years in office offer a powerful record of an unsettling time in American history.
National Museum of American History

Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt: Historical Representation in the Museum as Seen Through Photo Analysis
This online exhibit examines photographs of early manikins representing Plains Indians in the Smithsonian during the 1870s.
National Museum of Natural History

Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype
Learn about the history of the daguerreotype and view daguerreotype landscapes, portraits, and occupationals.
Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896 and the Beginning of a National Collection
View a collection of images from three prestigious Washington, D.C. organizations that played a major role in the establishment and acceptance of art photography in America.
National Museum of American History