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1928 England Lives On In Timeless Autochrome Photos

At the behest of National Geographic, Clifton R. Adams spent the late 1920s and early 1930s in England, where he photographed the country’s farms, towns, and the people who composed them. Using an emerging process known as Autochrome, Adams’ color images were stunning for the time, and remain beautiful examples...

By Erin Kelly • May 25, 2015

1928 England Lives On In Timeless Autochrome Photos

At the behest of National Geographic, Clifton R. Adams spent the late 1920s and early 1930s in England, where he photographed the country’s farms, towns, and the people who composed them. Using an emerging process known as Autochrome, Adams’ color images were stunning for the time, and remain beautiful examples...

By Erin Kelly • May 25, 2015

Death And High Society: Green-Wood Cemetery In Spring

Class and social stature have been so historically important in New York “society” that the elite have even competed for a place to rot. In the words of architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings...

By All That's Interesting • May 23, 2015

Death And High Society: Green-Wood Cemetery In Spring

Class and social stature have been so historically important in New York “society” that the elite have even competed for a place to rot. In the words of architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings...

By All That's Interesting • May 23, 2015

Alejandro Duran Turns Trash Into An Incredible Art Project

We must look no further than the nasty, thousand-mile-wide strip of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to know that our world is becoming more polluted. Yet artist Alejandro Duran doesn’t let this reality deter his creative process; rather, this reality incites it. Rounding up oceanic debris found along...

By Kiri Picone • May 22, 2015

Alejandro Duran Turns Trash Into An Incredible Art Project

We must look no further than the nasty, thousand-mile-wide strip of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to know that our world is becoming more polluted. Yet artist Alejandro Duran doesn’t let this reality deter his creative process; rather, this reality incites it. Rounding up oceanic debris found along...

By Kiri Picone • May 22, 2015

Our Earth In Crisis: Photos Of A Changing World

Forty five years ago, the world observed its very first Earth Day. And yet, it would take decades of discord, troubling discoveries and subsequent environmental activism before such an event would gain enough popularity to even be thinkable. In the preceding decades, modern warfare and heavy industrialization-led growth had proliferated...

By Erin Kelly • May 22, 2015

Our Earth In Crisis: Photos Of A Changing World

Forty five years ago, the world observed its very first Earth Day. And yet, it would take decades of discord, troubling discoveries and subsequent environmental activism before such an event would gain enough popularity to even be thinkable. In the preceding decades, modern warfare and heavy industrialization-led growth had proliferated...

By Erin Kelly • May 22, 2015

Before Brunch, There Were Riots: 1970s Harlem In Photos

Harlem in the 1970s was marked with violence and loss, but it was also a time where its residents cultivated an incredibly resilient character.

By Erin Kelly • May 17, 2015

Before Brunch, There Were Riots: 1970s Harlem In Photos

Harlem in the 1970s was marked with violence and loss, but it was also a time where its residents cultivated an incredibly resilient character.

By Erin Kelly • May 17, 2015

29 Swoon-Worthy Pictures Of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

These photos prove that Japanese cherry blossoms are one of the simplest and most beautiful blooms in the world.

By Kiri Picone • May 17, 2015

29 Swoon-Worthy Pictures Of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

These photos prove that Japanese cherry blossoms are one of the simplest and most beautiful blooms in the world.

By Kiri Picone • May 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXI

China Knows How To Do Crowds Surely, you remember the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a staggering visual display that turned crowds into art. Well, the Chinese people have not lost that skill set in the years since. Whether the mass coordination is precise out of necessity (military...

By John Kuroski • May 8, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXI

China Knows How To Do Crowds Surely, you remember the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a staggering visual display that turned crowds into art. Well, the Chinese people have not lost that skill set in the years since. Whether the mass coordination is precise out of necessity (military...

By John Kuroski • May 8, 2015

Photographer Brings Mongolia’s Disappearing Reindeer People Right To Your Desktop

Mining and urbanization are bringing an end to the Dukha, or what many call Mongolia's "reindeer people."

By Erin Kelly • May 3, 2015

Photographer Brings Mongolia’s Disappearing Reindeer People Right To Your Desktop

Mining and urbanization are bringing an end to the Dukha, or what many call Mongolia's "reindeer people."

By Erin Kelly • May 3, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXX

Winners Of The 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Announced This year, Smithsonian Magazine editors received over 26,500 entries for their annual photo contest. Just this week, the magazine announced 2014’s winners in each competition category, being: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile. Given the high quality...

By Savannah Cox • May 1, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXX

Winners Of The 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Announced This year, Smithsonian Magazine editors received over 26,500 entries for their annual photo contest. Just this week, the magazine announced 2014’s winners in each competition category, being: the Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, Altered Images and Mobile. Given the high quality...

By Savannah Cox • May 1, 2015

Childhood Homelessness, A Hidden American Problem

Homelessness is a national problem in the United States, and one whose victims are often hidden. They aren’t just the haggard Vietnam vet or the disabled man on the corner asking for assistance; they’re the children and families who couch surf, bounce between friends’ homes, live in cars, subsist in...

By Susan Sims • Apr 29, 2015

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Childhood Homelessness, A Hidden American Problem

Homelessness is a national problem in the United States, and one whose victims are often hidden. They aren’t just the haggard Vietnam vet or the disabled man on the corner asking for assistance; they’re the children and families who couch surf, bounce between friends’ homes, live in cars, subsist in...

By Susan Sims • April 29, 2015