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Photographic Memory
Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery
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Encompassing more than one hundred works, from the Daguerreian era to today's digital age, this stunning volume will explore the evolution of photographic portraiture through treasures from the National Portrait Gallery's wide-ranging collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the photography...
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Encompassing more than one hundred works, from the Daguerreian era to today's digital age, this stunning volume will explore the evolution of photographic portraiture through treasures from the National Portrait Gallery's wide-ranging collection at the Smithsonian Institution.
Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the photography collection's founding, Photographic Memory highlights the medium's role in democratizing portraiture. Works by leading photographers, including Richard Avedon, Mathew Brady, Annie Leibovitz, and James Van Der Zee, portray some of the country's most significant individuals, including Abraham Lincoln, John Steinbeck, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, emphasizing the remarkable people on both sides of the camera.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781785516429
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 November 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
Illustration: 150 COLOR AND B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
Contributors:
- Edited by Ann M. Shumard
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 567g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Ann M. Shumard joined the National Portrait Gallery's department of photographs in 1979 and has served as the museum's senior curator of photographs since 2001. Throughout her tenure, she has played an integral role in the development and interpretation of the museum's photography collection, which now numbers more than 11,000 objects-from daguerreotypes to born-digital images.
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