Photography

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Red Light Photo

"We must have run up and down that street 300 times," recalls co-star Carol Lawrence (with Larry Kert).

West Side Glory

Out of Hell's Kitchen came an image that would epitomize one of Broadway's greatest love stories

Karl Struss (1886-1981). "Two women in front of a vine covered country store," c. 1910.

In Living Color

An obscure photographic process unveiled 100 years ago opens a fresh window on the past

(Shea Beebe, age 36, Converse, Texas, Photographed May 2006) Beebe took a photograph of her then-8-year-old daughter, Peyton, layered an image of a tree over it and added "gold tint to give it a more dream-like quality." Often, Beebe, who plans to pursue a photojournalism degree this fall, will look at unaltered photos "and try to imagine what they could be if I added an unusual color or layered them with another photo of mine."

Prize Pictures

Our photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. And the winners are...

Joelle Linhoff, winner of our 4th Annual Photo Contest, spent three days on a hill overlooking a New Zealand pasture before she snapped the photo that would net her the grand prize. “I just took as many photos as I could,” she says, “using as much film as I had brought. I allotted one whole roll of film to the pasture.”

Capturing the Moment

The winner of the 4th Annual Photo Contest shows off her work in this exclusive photo gallery

Contemporary Art is OK

Edward Bernard's "Orbis eruditi", comparing all known alphabets as of 1689

An Alphabet of Pictures

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A winter dawn in a New Zealand pasture

4th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2006 contest

In his picture of Y. A. Tittle, Morris Berman captured the vanquished warrior's bloody struggle. But the now-classic photograph wasn't even published at first.

Fallen Giant

"A whole lifetime was over," legendary quarterback Y.A. Tittle recalls

Future president Richard M. Nixon.

When He Said "Jump..."

Philippe Halsman defied gravitas

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An Interview with Peter van Agtmael, Photographer for "Return to the Marsh"

Van Agtmael spoke with Ben Block by phone from the American base Fort Apache in Adhamiyah, outside Baghdad

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Morning In America

Space shuttle-watchers took their place in the sun, not yet awakened to the true risks of exploring the heavens.

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Snap Judgments

The winners (and some runners-up) of SMITHSONIAN's annual photo contest take a bow

William Wegman photographed by Roy Adkins

Artist William Wegman

Wegman speaks about photographing his Weimaraners, including Man Ray and Fay Ray

Hurricane Katrina

Crescent City Twilight

A photographer takes a pinhole view of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which struck a year ago this month

GRAND PRIZE WINNER Bali cremation

3rd Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2005 contest

Munich, Germany

Bone Voyage

On assignment with Europe's most peripatetic canine

Clarke was an "admirer of beauty," said the folklorist Henry Shoemaker, and he "singled out many lovely mountain girls with his lens." This haunting idyllic interpretation of two girls, presumable sisters, is marred only by some damage to the glass plate negative.

Forgotten Forest

Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago

Most of the flash equipment was custom-built, but Link (left) and his assistant George Thom also used miners' headlamps while they were setting up shots after dark.

The Big Picture

A well-planned single image yells the story of 20th-century transportation

Life imitates Frederic Remington (models Josh and Rob Culbertson) at the annual invitation-only event known as the Artist Ride.

Cowboys and Artists

Each summer models decked out in period dress give artists a picture of life in the Wild West

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