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Close to 200 unforgettable photographic images from 50 photographers, reflect the cause, struggle and changes the nation faced during the civil rights movement the tumultuous 12-year period of the 1950s and 1960s at the Smithsonian International Gallery through March 9, 2009.
The collection chronicles from the historic event of Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her bus seat, to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
The Road to Freedom – Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement – 1954-1968, offers historic mages that capture the non-violent civil rights movement movement through non-violent awareness raising, the events surrounding the …read more

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Many of Annie Leibovitz photographs are unforgettable.
The Rolling Stone cover image of a naked John Lennon hugging Yoko Ono taken the morning he was killed. The Vanity Fair cover of a nude pregnant Demi Moore.  The images of the Rolling Stones during one of their American tours.  Her classic images for the American Express card celebrity campaign. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. album cover. And most recently, the controversial Vanity Fair implied semi-nude photos of Miley Cyrus in April of this year. 
She was the chief photographer for both Rolling Stone and a featured photographer for Vanity Fair. 
She will discuss …read more

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Over 70 area galleries, museums, universities, embassies and art centers will participate in the first ever, FotoWeek DC, in Washington, DC.
Throughout the week of November 15-22, 2008, Washington, DC will celebrate the art of photography, with a gathering of the best in the DC photographic community, with series of exhibits, lectures, competitions, and celebration of all things photographic.
FotoWeek DC brings together photographic talent and a collection of images ranging from artistic to business, political to editorial. Events include:

Exhibitions at over 60 galleries and public spaces around DC
Juried exhibitions of some of Washington, DC’s most gifted photographers
Lectures and book signings …read more

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Something to think about….

Yet I hope it’s not true!!
Seen on a DC lamp post near F and 18th Streets, NW in Washington, DC.
Image – from personal collection   ©2008, Jon Rochetti 
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The works of three outstanding American nature photographers from different generations, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Robert Adams, each capture the essence of nature, in images of clouds, surf and rivers.

The collection on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC showcases 21 images, including:

Stieglitz’s series of ten photos of clouds over Lake George, New York, a collection which has not been shown in its entirety since a 1923. 
Ansel Adams’ photos of the coastline and surf along San Mateo’s coast, south of San Francisco.
Robert Adams’ images of the Columbia River emptying into the Pacific in Oregon. 

Oceans, Rivers, and …read more

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This month, National Geographic magazine has a feature story about Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Family Ties – The Elephants of Samburu. He has been studying elephants for over 40 years.  And today, he’s considered a foremost biologists and a leading expert on the African elephant. He’s also the founder of Save the Elephants.

His organization fights the poaching of these majestic animals and helps educate the world about the lives and habits of elephants. He helped secure a global ban ivory trade and as a result, elephant populations are growing, especially around the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya.  An estimated 5,400 African …read more

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It’s time for another Friday Photo Caption Contest. Once again, no grand prize for the best caption, but the top creative and funny captions get mentioned on the next Friday Photo on The DC Traveler.
This week’s photo is of a lone woman reading a newspaper on the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building.
 
Here’s one to get you started:

Hmmm….So according to this article, James Carville thinks that if Obama drops out for health reasons, and his wife Michelle doesn’t replace him, and since his daughters are too young to run in his place, and Al Gore, John Dean, John …read more

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The Daguerre Moment sculpture on the grounds of the Reynolds Center is a tribute to the inventor of daguerreotype photography by French chemist and artist Louis J.M. Daguerre.  Created in in 1839 it was the first  photographic process that was commercially viable for portraits. The technique allowed photographers to permanently record an image on polished silver glass plates, using shorter exposure times. 
The labor-intensive process was quickly adopted by traveling American portraits photographers who moved from town to town, selling people the opportunity to have an image of themselves without having to sit for a painter or incur the associated high …read more

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          Long may she wave.
 
 
 
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