<p>This is a collection of photographs from the Photographic History Collection by Arnold Newman, and a portrait of Newman by Charles Rushton.  Many of Newman's portraits are of artists, scientists, musicians, dancers, architects, and businessmen.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: portraiture, artists, photographs of famous people, black and white photography, modernism, composition, fine art photography</p>

<p>The Carl Mydans Collection at the National Museum of American History consists of 166 photographs that span the years from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s, and two Halliburton camera cases that contain all his photographic equipment. <br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: photojournalist, photojournalism, war photography, documentary photography, visual culture, picture magazines, current events, reportage, crisis photography, war coverage, Farm Security Administration, FSA, World War Two, World War II, WWII, Korean War, Life Magazine, U.S. Camera, Time Magazine</p> <p>Text from PHC finding aid written by Vanessa Pares:</p> <p>The photographs in the Photographic History Collection include the rural images created as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration and those taken while on assignment for <em>LIFE</em> magazine. In the mid-1930s, he covered cattle drives in the Big Bend, the oil boomtown of Freer and “brushhogs,” migratory workers who lived by the side of the road. A few years later, he completed the series on “sandhogs,” construction workers who built the Midtown Tunnel under the East River in New York City. </p> <p>During the 1940s, he recorded events of the Second World War, mainly in the Pacific theater. Once the war ended, he was sent to Bikini Island Atoll, an island chain in the Pacific that is part of the Marshall Islands chain. There he documented the evacuation of the people of Bikini from their home island in order to clear the way for major atomic testing, and the Bikinians' exodus to nearby Rongerik.</p> <p>The rest of the collection includes portraits of major political, military, and literary figures, such as Winston Churchill, General MacArthur and William Faulkner. Carl Mydans was a storyteller. Always seeking the drama and history of a moment, his pictures are meant to recount a story with no words. Carl Mydans was born in Boston on May 20, 1907. He graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism, after which he went on to work as a free-lance writer for the <em>Boston Herald</em> and the <em>Boston Globe</em>. While a staff writer for the <em>American Banker</em>, Mydans began to carry a miniature camera on his assignments.</p> <p>In 1935, he carried a camera full time, joining the photographic unit of the Resettlement Administration, which merged into the Farm Security Administration in 1937. Under the supervision of Roy Stryker, a group of photographers—composed of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evens, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein and Carl Mydans, among others—was sent on assignment to make a difference by reporting and documenting the plight of the poor farmer. Their task was to create a “pictorial history” of agriculture and focus on those most affected by the Great Depression. The photographers would tour the nation and interpret it through the shape of the land and the faces of the unemployed, the migrant farmers, and the sharecroppers. During this time, Mydans documented cotton production in the southeastern states, the impoverished dwellings of New England, and the creation of new “greenbelt towns” or government-sponsored planned communities. </p> <p>In 1936, Mydans left the FSA and was hired by the newly established <em>LIFE</em> magazine. One of his first assignments for <em>LIFE</em> was a photo essay on Texas, focusing mainly on the oil boomtown of Freer. It was also at this time that he met Shelley Smith, a <em>LIFE</em> researcher and journalist whom he married the following year. Once World War II broke out, the couple was sent to Europe as a reporter-photographer team. At first they went to England, covering London under siege, then to Sweden, and then to Finland, where Mydans had his first combat experience. The couple later traveled to Italy to cover Fascism, to France to witness its defeat, to Pearl Harbor to photograph American naval operations, and then to China. When the attack on Pearl Harbor occured, Carl and his wife were in Manila, the Philippines. Early in 1942, the Philippines were invaded by the Japanese and the couple was imprisoned. After almost nine months of captivity, they were moved from Santo Tomas University—an internment camp for civilians—to Shanghai. On December 1943, the couple, along with 1,400 American and Canadian citizens, was repatriated. Although Mydans was unable to cover the war, he was grateful to have survived and continue to watch and photograph all the events that encompassed his life. Soon after his return to the States, he was sent back to the European front. </p> <p>In 1944, he accompanied Allied forces to Italy where he covered the campaigns in Monte Cassino and Rome. After Italy, Mydans traveled to Marseilles to cover the fighting in southern France. Following the liberation of France, he was rushed back to the South Pacific to rejoin Gen. Douglas MacArthur for his triumphant return to the Philippines. Three weeks after the invasion of Luzon, Mydans took part in the charge into Manila—which concluded with the liberation of the remaining 4,000 civilian captives in Santo Tomas—alongside the 8th Cavalry Regiment. Months later, on September 2, 1945, Mydans was one of the few privileged photojournalists to be present at the site of the official Japanese surrender on the <em>U.S.S. Missouri</em>. After the Second World War, the Mydans took up residence in Tokyo, where he worked as chief editor of the TIME-LIFE news bureau. During those years, he captured the earthquake at Fukui, the Communist Revolution in China, and the war in Korea. </p> <p>In 1950, while on a trip to New York, Mydans received word of the outbreak of the Korean war. It only took him ten days to get himself shipped back into battle. Later that year, he received a Gold Achievement Award from <em>U.S. Camera</em> for his coverage of the Korean conflict. After the war, Mydans completed assignments in England, Berlin, and Russia, and traveled to Vietnam in 1968 to do a story on refugees. After the closing of <em>LIFE</em>, he continued to work as a photojournalist with <em>TIME</em> magazine, and wrote books based on his experiences at war. Mydans died on August 16, 2004.</p>

<p>The Nickolas Muray collection at the NMAH Photographic History Department includes  six bromide and forty-six color-carbro photographs. They range in subject from commercial photography to portraits of famous individuals spanning from the 1920s through the early 1960s.<br></p> <p> Additional photographs by Muray can be found in the Learning Lab collection containing stills of Hollywood movie stars.<br></p> <p>For additional collections, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: advertising photography, dance photography, performance photography, magazine work, color carbro photography, color photography, platinum photography, dancers, dance photography, food photography</p>

<p>This is a selection of photographs from the Photographic History Collection by Fred J. Maroon of the Nixon Presidency.<br></p> <p>These photographs are from the exhibition <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/photographing-history-fred-j-maroon-and-nixon-years-1970%E2%80%931974">Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974</a> hosted at the National Museum of American History, July 29- December 5, 1999.<em></em></p> <p>Copyright Fred J. Maroon.</p> <p>Keywords: gelatin silver prints, photojournalism, photojournalist, documentary photography, impeachment process, Nixon resignation, President Richard M. Nixon, congressional processes, television, current events, historical events, United States history, presidential history, Washington, DC, White House, Capitol Building, Senate hearings</p>

<p>This a collection of photographs by Arthur Leipzig from the Photographic History Collection.<br></p> <p>This selection includes photographs of swamp loggers and swamp logging in the Everglades. He was on assignment for <em>Argus Men's Magazine</em> in 1954.<br></p> <p>This selection also includes two photographs of people using cameras, Zero Mostel, Joseph Welsh, and  Ernest Rice McKinney.</p> <p>Copyright Arthur Leipzig<br></p> <p>For additional work by Leipzig, search collections.si.edu.</p>

<p>The Lisa Law collection at the NMAH Photographic History Department consists of 202 silver gelatin photographs.<br></p> <p>Copyright Lisa Law</p> <p>Keywords: 1960s, counter culture movement, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Lovin Spoonful, Peter, Paul and Mary, Woodstock, Haight-Ashbury, Coretta Scott King, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Yogi Bhajan, New Buffalo Commune, hippies, music and photography, Vietnam protests, farming, back to the land movement, communal living, yoga, spirituality, cooking, motherhood</p> <p>With her camera, Lisa Law documented history in the heart of the counterculture revolution of the 1960s as she lived it, as a participant, an agent of change and a member of the broader culture. She recorded this time of anti-war demonstrations in California, communes, Love-Ins, peace marches and concerts, as well as her family life as she became a wife and mother. </p> <p>The photographs were collected by William Yeingst and Shannon Perich in a cross-unit collecting collaboration.  A selection of the photographs were featured in the exhibition <em>A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1964–1971</em>, at the National Museum of American History, October 1998-April 1999. Together, the curators selected over two hundred photographs relevant to photographic history, cultural history, domestic life and social history. Law’s portraiture and concert photographs include Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Lovin Spoonful and Peter, Paul and Mary. She also took several of Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, including the photograph used to create the poster included in the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum’s exhibition <em>1001 Days and Nights in American Art</em>. </p> <p>Law and other members of the Hog Farm were involved in the logistics of setting up the well-known musical extravaganza, Woodstock. Her photographs include the teepee poles going into the hold of the plane, a few concert scenes and amenities like the kitchen and medical tent. Other photographs include peace rallies and concerts in Haight-Ashbury, Coretta Scott King speaking at an Anti-War protest and portraits of Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. From her life in New Mexico the photographs include yoga sessions with Yogi Bhajan, bus races, parades and other public events. From life on the New Buffalo Commune, there are many pictures of her family and friends taken during meal preparation and eating, farming, building, playing, giving birth and caring for children. After Law left the farm, she began a career as a photographer.  In 1990, her video documentary, “Flashing on the Sixties,” won several awards.</p>

<p>This is a collection from the Photographic History Collection of photographs by Key Heyman.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu</p> <p>Keywords: travel photography, documentary photography, children, humor, black and white photography</p>

<p>This is a collection of work by Betty Hahn and a portrait of her in the Photographic History Collection.<br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Keywords: gum bichromate, photographs on fabric, hand-stitching, feminist art, women and art, experimental photography</p>

<p>This is a collection of photographs by photographer Marco Grob from his series, <em>Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience</em>, published in <em>Time </em>magazine on September 9, 2011.<br></p> <p>The photographs are large, depicting his subjects larger than life-sized. Here is a mix of public officials, members of the armed forces, and private citizens, with varied roles, experiences, and traumas related to life after September 11, 2001. </p> <p>Copyright held by Time Magazine and Marco Grob.</p> <p>Keywords: portraiture, journalism, teddy bear, political intrigue, political policy, military policy, veteran, injured, disabled veteran, interpreter, national leaders, intelligence community, spy, protest, grieving mother, religion, patriotism, memorial, tribute, national reflection, Iraq, Muslim, chaplain, helmet, 9/11</p>

<p>This is a selection of photogravures by Adolf Fassbender.<br></p> <p>For additional images, search collection.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: photomechanical, art photography, Pictorialism</p>

<p>This is a selection from over 200 photographs by Elliot Erwitt in the Photographic History Collection. <br></p> <p>Copyright held by Elliot Erwitt.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: humor, national tragedy, dogs, reportage, fine art photograph, street photography</p>

<p>This is a collection of contemporary tintypes from the Photographic History Collection by Ed Drew.  There are two bodies of work in this collection, <em>Combat Images from Afghanistan</em> (2013) and <em>The People of Klamath</em> (2014-2015). <br></p> <p>Copyright Ed Drew.</p> <p>For additional images, search collections.si.edu.</p> <p>Keywords: tintype, portraiture, alternative process, airmen, Air Force Reserve, deployment, medic, helicopter,  American flag, guns, Native Americans, Oregon, photography and agency, record album cover, textile, feathers, fur, exterior portrait, woods, forest, trees, rocks, sweatshirt, cell phone</p>