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One of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, a Dadaist and pioneer of Surrealism, Man Ray (1890-1976) became involved with photography in 1914. He was soon experimenting with different processes--solarization, negative images, multiple exposures--and in 1921 he created the "rayograph." T... More

"Perhaps in the future," Man Ray suggested to Duchamp, "photography would replace all art." "The Photography of Invention" hints at that future by documenting a decade of startling new work in American photography: work that challenges the accepted hierarchy of the arts and, arguably, establishes ph... More

The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. This largely unknown body of photography (most never before published) represents nothing less than the Smithsonian's effort, in the name of all Americans, to describe and comprehend the w... More

As mapmaker and photographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903) took more than three hundred photographs of the Upper Mississippi River from 1883 to 1893. His work was almost unknown until five separate volumes of his photographs were discovered during the past few y... More

In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. All of their aspirations and commonplace interests converge in the picture of nineteenth-century America vividly brought to life in American Photographs: The First Century.... More

The way the advertising industry operates has changed vastly in the last 15 years. Innovative and groundbreaking ways of thinking about branding are constantly developing, and due to the sheer volume of material published on the subject, it is almost impossible to keep up with all the latest importa... More