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Art Deco: Picture Collections at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library
This is the seventh and final post in a series about the Art Deco resources at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum library. Each post will highlight primary resources which contain the styles and designs of the Art Deco era.
Portrait of Amelia Earhart
Photographs of the Southwest
Ansel Adams curated a selection of more than 100 images of his photographs of the Southwest, taken between 1928 and 1975. In 1937, Adams wrote to his friend Alfred Stieglitz of his time in the Southwest: "it is all very beautiful and magical here--a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you." In this book, Adams' iconic black and white photographs encompass both expansive, awe-inspiring landscapes and quiet studies of nature and people.
Wilson's Cyclopedic Photography
Author Edward Livingston Wilson’s love of photography was matched only by the magnificence of his facial hair. Wilson’s influence stretched far beyond photography as an artistic medium: in 1864, he published the first photographic journal in the United States, Philadelphia Photographer, which he later humbly renamed Wilson’s Photographic Magazine. He created a separate photographic exhibit for the Centennial Exposition of 1876 for which he was also official photographer.
