Web Sites
American Photographs: The First
Century
americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html
Center for Media Literacy
www.medialit.org
(The Web site of this
nonprofit educational organization
includes classroom approaches
to the interpretation of images.)
Freeze Frame: Eadweard
Muybridge's Photography of Motion
americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/
Helios: Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Online
americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/index.html
In the Steps of Esteban: Tucson's African American Heritage
www.library.arizona.edu/images/afamer/lessons/welcome.html
(This site includes lessons
from the Smithsonian-affiliated Tucson
Unified School District that
might prompt ideas about teaching
with historical photographs
of your school or community.)
Secrets of the Dark
Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype
americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/secrets/index.html
Books for Teachers
Foresta, Merry. At First
Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Books, 2003.
Mora, Gilles. Photospeak:
A Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of
Photography, 1839 to the
Present. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.
Books for Students
Ages 4-8
Gibbons, Gail. Click! A
Book about Cameras and Taking Pictures.
New York: Little Brown, 1997.
Ages 9-12
Czech, Kenneth P. Snapshot:
America Discovers the Camera. Minneapolis:
Lerner Publications, 1996.
Gains, Ann Graham. American
Photographs: Capturing the Image.
Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow
Publishers, 2002.
Lowe, Jacques, ed. Looking
at Photographs: People. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books, 1995.
Pflueger, Lynda. George
Eastman: Bringing Photography to the People.
Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow
Publishers, 2002.
Acknowledgments
Michelle Delaney and Katie
Morris
National Museum of
American History
Merry Foresta and Liza
Karvellas
Smithsonian Photography
Initiative
Credits
Stephen Binns
Writer
Michelle Knovic Smith
Publications Director
Catalone Design Co.
Design
Illustrations
Cover: Detail from Interior
with Portraits by Thomas Le Clear, ca. 1865. Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase made possible by the Pauline Edwards Bequest.
Pages 1, 8, 18
(daguerreotype, Muybridge, and Kodak cameras): Photographic History
Collection, Division of Information Technology and Society, National Museum of
American History, Behring Center.
Page 4 and details of
portraits on 11: National Portrait Gallery. Matthew Perry by Mathew
Brady Studio (right, page 11), gift of
John O'Brien.
Page 6: San Francisco, Corner of California and Montgomery Streets by James Ford,
ca. 1857. Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase from the Charles Isaacs
Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen
Endowment.
Art on page 9: Comanche
Warrior Lancing an Osage, at Full Speed by George Catlin, 1837-39. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr. Goat Ripping, Tajikistan by Louis Lozowick, 1932. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Adele
Lozowick.
Color photograph on page 9:
Man Diving by Raghubir Singh. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of the
artist. Copyright © 1987 Raghubir Singh/Succession, Raghubir Singh.
Wet-plate camera on page 18:
Jeff Tinsley, Smithsonian Institution