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click! Photography Changes Everything

anthropology, biology, chemistry, community, family, human/civil rights, leadership, medicine, portraiture, race, self-improvement, and personal, local, and national identity

architecture, arts, business, crime, education, engineering, politics, propaganda, self-improvement, sports, work

journalism, censorship, perception, surveillance, motion, time

aerospace, exploration, geology, globalism, medical imaging, mining, oceanography, tourism, virtual reality

beauty, advertising, celebrity, entertainment, food, imagination, style, sex, truth

history, memory, commemoration, family, personality, fact, fiction

click! photography changes everything is presented by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative as an ongoing project to explore how photographic images shape our lives.

Now: click! invites one hundred experts in their fields to explore the ways photography has changed a broad spectrum of disciplines—from anthropology to astrophysics, from media to medicine, from philosophy to sports.

Next: Coming in Fall 2008, click! continues the discussion by inviting the public to submit their images and comments about the ways photography has influenced the world in which we live.

Ultimately, all contributions to click! will serve as the basis for new public programs. Commentaries are posted to this website on an ongoing basis, so check back regularly and subscribe to the SPI e-newsletter.

Begin your exploration of click! by choosing one of the themes above or make your selection from a complete list of commentaries.