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Photography changes our relationship to our planet
By Stewart Brand
- Whole Earth Catalog, 1968
- Stewart Brand
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Photography changes how we collect, preserve, and present cultural artifacts
By Merry A. Foresta
- Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846
- Unidentified photographer
- Daguerreotype
- National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications
- Photographic History Collection
- Image No. AFS 140
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Photography changes the struggle for racial justice
By Maurice Berger
- The Movement, 1964
- Danny Lyon
- Collection of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland Baltimore County
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![[Marian Anderson recital at Lincoln Memorial (series), #148 : cellulose acetate photonegative,] April 9, 1939 by Robert S. Scurlock](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/618ns0227127-01jp.jpg)
![Late 40's / Early civil rights group picket / "Jim Crow" showing of "Gone with the Wind" / at the uptown Lincoln Theater. Rufus Byars / mgr. of Lincoln on left. [Paper photoprints,] 1947 by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/618ps0237229-01jp.jpg)
![[Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial: series, #135 : cellulose acetate photonegative,] April 9, 1939 by Robert S. Scurlock](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/618ns0227139-01jp.jpg)
![[Negro League baseball team Brooklyn Eagles : photoprint.] by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/AC0618.001.0000001.jpg)
![Freedmen's Hospital Nurse Class [paper photoprint,] 1930 by Addison N. Scurlock](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/scurlock/618ps0237225-01pg.jpg)
Photography changes how we experience history
By David Friend
- Excerpts, taken every four seconds, of American Airlines Flight 11 on the morning of September 11, 2001
- Wolfgang Staehle
- Digital photograph
- Photograph by Wolfgang Staehle
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Photography changes our desire for celebrity and glamour
By Amy Henderson
- Veronica Lake, c. 1945
- Unidentified creator
- color photolithographic halftone poster
- National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery
- Image No. S/NPG.89.23
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![Mbombio, Chief Mogendo's principal wife, Medje village, Congo (Democratic Republic). [slide] by Eliot Elisofon](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/eepa/eep/eepa_03033.jpg)
![[Mother with daughter and baby]. [Print advertising. Jewish newspapers.] 1939 by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/ivorysoap/ivory_0207910745.jpg)
![[Little girl, possibily Eileen McKenna, getting hair washed : black and white photoprint] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0651-0000001.jpg)
![Bill Blass Interprets the Cover Girl Look [color advertisement, tear sheet], 1964 by Richard Avedon](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0374-0000290m.jpg)
![Party face of the seventies [black and white photoprint] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/04037427.jpg)
![Miss America with Kansas City Office Staff of Lever Brothers Co. [black and white photoprint] by Anderson](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0902-0000001.jpg)
![[African American woman model for Noxzema Skin Cream : black and white photoprint] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/04037432.jpg)
![One row of 25 grocery carts--11'6" overall---Telescope Carts Inc. [black and white photoprint] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/02073901.jpg)
![The Best on Earth. / The Best on Mars. [Black and white advertisement] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/03044801.jpg)
![First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the Air [color advertisement] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/01061101.jpg)
![In 60 seconds, Dorothy Lamour learns how to buy a better mattress [black and white advertisement] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/00073101.jpg)
![[Nat Mathis spraying hair of woman with Afro-Sheen : photoprint] by Harris & Ewing](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/d8641-4.jpg)
![Mrs. Cornlius Vanderbilt Jr. is Young...[sic] Entrancing.....Beautful...as the world expects her to be. [Print advertising.] 1929 by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/ivorysoap/ivory_03061140.jpg)
Photography changes medical diagnosis and treatment
By Michael P. Kelly
- Diabetic Retinopathy, 2000's
- Michael P. Kelly
- Digital photograph
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![Raphael Soyer [graphic] by Valente, Alfredo](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/aaa/newPOA/aaa_valealfr_4511.jpg)
Photography changes every day objects
By Daile Kaplan
- Mother and child, c. 1910's
- Unidentified photographer
- Medium unknown
- Courtesy of Daile Kaplan
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![[African American boy and girl on Christmas card with attached 1926 calendar : Black-and-white photoprint affixed to cardboard] by Ferguson](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/01040401.jpg)
![New Black Leaders [hand fan with six black-and-white photo reproductions] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0263-0000001.jpg)
![[Stock Certificate for five shares of The Southern Maryland Co-Operative Creamery Association : stock certificate] by Southern Maryland Co-Operative Creamery Association, The](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/misc/AC0475-0000021.jpg)
Photography changes personal history
By Wendy Ewald
- PICTURE #1, 2004
- Wendy Ewald
- Vinyl ink jet print
- Courtesy of Wendy Ewald
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![Songye power figure, protector of the village, Nsapo region, Congo (Democratic Republic), [negative] by Eliot Elisofon](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/eepa/eep3/eepa-EENG_00380.jpg)
Photography changes how wars are fought
By Von Hardesty
- Reconnaissance photograph, 1944
- Unidentified photographer
- Medium unknown
- National Air and Space Museum, National Air and Space Museum Archives
- Aerial Expeditionary Force Photography Collection
- Image No. P-38-Beach-14-May-44-0060
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![Frank D. Duncan [graphic] by Unidentified photographer](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/aaa/newPOA/aaa_watsforb_3545.jpg)
Photography changes our knowledge of new species
By Jeff T. Williams
- Scarus Hypselopterus (Yellow-tail parrotfish), 2003
- Jeffrey T. Williams
- Digital photograph
- National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes
- Image No. Scarus-hypselopterus- 178.4-mm-SL-BUS-03-09
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![(7) Fishing boats coming home at sunset - west across Tamagawa to Kawasaki, near Yokohama, Japan, 1904 or earlier. [graphic] by Underwood & Underwood](http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max=48&id=http://sirismm.si.edu/sackler/photo/ar516.jpg)
