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Photography Changes Everything—drawn from the online Smithsonian Photography Initiative—offers a provocative rethinking of photography’s impact on our culture and our lives. It is a reader-friendly exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world.
At this transitional moment in visual culture, Photography Changes Everything provides a unique opportunity to better understand the history, practice, and power of photography. The publication harnesses the extraordinary visual assets of the Smithsonian Institution’s museums, science centers, and archives to trigger an unprecedented and interdisciplinary dialogue about how photography does more than record the world—it shapes and changes every aspect of our experience of it. The book features over three hundred images and nearly one hundred engaging short texts commissioned from experts, writers, inventors, public figures, and everyday folk—Hugh Hefner, John Baldessari, John Waters, Robert Adams, Sandra Phillips, and others. Each story responds to images selected by project contributors. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our lives have been transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery. Copublished with the Smithsonian institution Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman (born in Brooklyn, 1948) has focused on the influence of photographic images on culture and history in projects such as Fame After Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (1999) and Image World: Art and Media Culture at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1989). A contributing editor to Art in America, he serves on the faculty of both the International Center of Photography/ Bard College and the School of Visual Arts’ MFA programs in photography. Shortly after joining the Smithsonian in 1977, Merry Foresta (foreword) became the museum’s first curator of photography. She was later named the senior curator of photography for the Smithsonian’s International Art Museums Division. In addition to building the institution’s photography collection, she has curated seminal exhibitions and contributed to corresponding books, including Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray, Photography of Invention: Pictures of the 1980s, and American Photographs: The First Century. |
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