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Photography Changes Everything
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Stored in: Photography News
Posted On: March 14 2008
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © accipitereye
From the Smithsonian Photography Initiative comes an exciting and dynamic project: "Click! - Photography Changes Everything." Click! will explore photography not just as an art form, but as an impetus for change in all areas of our lives and work. The first phase of the undertaking, active now, will collect essays and testimonies from one hundred scientists, historians, authors, and other professionals about the way photography has changed their fields of work. Then, beginning this fall, the public will be invited to join the dialogue.
The first essay I read is by Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, and connects the first outer space photos of Earth with the growth of environmentalism:
For the first time humanity saw itself from outside. The visible features from space were living blue ocean, living green–brown continents, dazzling polar ice and a busy atmosphere, all set like a delicate jewel in vast immensities of hard–vacuum space. Humanity's habitat looked tiny, fragile and rare. Suddenly humans had a planet to tend to.
This project comes among other changes in the Smithsonian's use of its vast photography collection, such as the move towards an easily searchable online archive. This looks to be a very exciting year at SPI.
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On March 14, 2008, Pam Ullman said ...
So cool! Thanks for sharing this, Brittney.
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