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Photo: Supermom
Photographer caption: A woman out showing off her baby belly near Battery Park, NYC.
Photo by Conor Scharr (Brooklyn, New York); New York, New York
Submit your best shots to our 16th Annual Photo Contest, open now!
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Just over two hours remain to vote for the Readers’ Choice winner of our 15th Annual Photo Contest!Don’t miss the chance to support your favorite finalist.
This year, we received 48,000 entries from photographers in 155 countries and territories and announced 10 finalists per category: The American Experience, Natural World, Travel, People, Altered Images and Mobile.
Voting closes at 2:00 p.m. ET today, Monday, March 26. We will announce our Readers’ Choice award alongside our Grand Prize and category winners tomorrow, Tuesday, March 27.
When we announce the winners, we’ll also be launching our 16th Annual Photo Contest, so start taking your prize-winning photographs!
Cast your vote now!
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Announcing the FINALISTS of the 15th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest! This year, we received 48,000 submissions from photographers in 155 countries and territories. From dynamic portraits to breathtaking landscapes, these 60 images stood out to our photo editors as the most unique and memorable.
Voting for the Readers’ Choice winner is now open!Come back each day to vote for YOUR favorite finalists. Voting is limited to one vote per user per day and runs through 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on March 26. We will announce the Grand Prize, Readers’ Choice and category winners as well as open up our 16th Annual Photo Contest on Tuesday, March 27.
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Photo of the Day: Lera
Photographer caption: A series of portraits of young women. In this series, I try to show the beauty, fragility of girls in growing up.
Photo by Evgeny Matveev (St. Petersburg, Russia); St. Petersburg, Russia
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Photo: Gwich'in Sisters
Photographer caption: Sisters, Cora and Lillian, participated in a traditional dance performance during the 2016 Gwich'in Gathering in Arctic Village, Alaska.
Photo by Allison Minto (Kew Gardens, New York, USA): Arctic Village, Alaska, USA
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Photo of the Day: Konduki
Photographer caption: Aerial photo. The middle of Russia, Tula region, near Konduki village. Among plains, cornfields and copses lies the abandoned Ushakovsky coal cut. During the Soviet era lignite was mined there, but in the 90s mining was closed due to unprofitability. Now 50-meter-high clay hills are overgrown with birches and aspens, forming a landscape very unusual for this region.
Photo by Alexey Kharitonov (Moscow, Russia); Konduki, Tula region, Russia
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Photo of the Day: A Belgian Angel
Photographer caption: A man is going home after attending the Meyboom festival in Brussels.
Photo by Alain Schroeder (Brussels, Belgium); Brussels, Belgium
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Photo of the Day: Joy
Photographer caption: Seal pup enjoying the morning breeze on Dune Island in Germany
Photo by Erika Valkovicova (Prague, Czech Republic); Dune Island, Germany
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Photo of the Day: Salt Field Workers
Photographer caption: These are women who work in a salt field in Vietnam. I altered the image to black and white and made the background black to emphasize the women.
Photo by Matty Karp (Haifa, Israel); Vietnam
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Photo: Green
Photographer caption: A vendor at a fun fair in The Meadows, Edinburgh
Photo by Gareth Bragdon (Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Edinburgh, Scotland
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Photo of the Day: Orphans
Photographer caption: Orphans line up beneath images of the leaders in Nampo, North Korea. Image drawn from a long-term project on the DPRK (North Korea) depicting less commonly shown aspects of daily life.
Photo by Fabian Muir (Sydney, Australia); Nampo, North Korea
Our 15th Annual Photo Contest is now closed. We’ll announce the 60 finalists in March 2018!
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Just TWO DAYS left to enter the 15th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest!
Submit by your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 pm EST >>
Photo of the Day: Throwing Colors
Photo by Hira Punjabi (Thane, India); Mathura, India
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Photo of the Day: The Window
Photo by Salvador Colvée Nebot (Denia, Spain); Costa Rica
The deadline to enter to our 15th Annual Photo Contest is fast approaching! Submit your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 PM EST.
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Photo: Untitled
Photographer caption: "I can cry in front of them, I can tell them my secrets. I buy them things and they calm me down. I just feel comfortable around them,” says twenty-six year old Lisa Schalm as she poses for a portrait inside of her bedroom in Brockport, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 2017. Lisa suffers from depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder and said that these reborn dolls are the only solution to help calm her symptoms. A reborn doll is a manufactured skin doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.”
Photo by Brittainy Newman (New York, New York, USA); Brockport, New York, USA
The deadline to enter to our 15th Annual Photo Contest is fast approaching! Submit your best shots by November 30 at 5:00 PM EST.
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Do you have what it takes to capture a prize-winning shot? Enter Smithsonian.com’s 15th Annual Photo Contest for the chance to win up to $2,500!
We’re looking for outstanding entries in the follow categories: Natural World, The American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images and Mobile.
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Submit your best shots to our 15th Annual Photo Contest, open now! Deadline: November 30.
Photo: Playing in the Alley
Category: Mobile
Photo by Kaveh Zakariaei Nejad (Sanandaj, Iran); Sanandaj, Iran
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On Friday, July 13, the Whitney will host Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic, a symposium that takes its name from an oral history project by the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. The symposium welcomes conversations with artists, activists, and oral historians on memories of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and ‘90s. Learn more on whitney.org.
[(From Left to Right: John Fekner, Jenny Holzer, David Wojnarowicz, Keith Haring and Michael Smith). “Urban Pulses” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 1983 Photo credit: David Lubarsky 1983 Courtesy John Fekner Research Archive]
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Mary Smith demands accuracy (and pure air) in this week’s Transcribe Tuesday.
Each week, on #TranscribeTuesday, we share work created by digital volunteers in the Transcription Center. That’s not a mystery, but who was Mary Smith? We’re not entirely sure! Transcribe this project, shared by smithsonianlibraries and perhaps we’ll learn more about whether she was a wealthy or well-connected British woman. Mary Smith’s Commonplace Book Concerning Science and Mathematics is a two volume hand-written manuscript, which dates from around 1769-1780, and summarizes science, math, medicine, religion and more.
New hero: the mysterious Mary Smith. (She’s rightly compared to Thomasina Coverly in this blog post.)
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Diadem of Empress Marie-Louise of Austria
c.1810
Nitot et Fils
Napoleon gave the Diadem to his second wife, the Empress Marie-Louise, on the occasion of their marriage. Originally the diadem, commissioned in 1810, was set with emeralds, which were replaced in the mid-1950s with turquoise. It was made by Etienne Nitot et Fils of Paris. The diadem was one piece of a parure that also included a necklace and earrings (now in the Louvre) and comb (disassembled), all in emeralds, diamonds, silver and gold. Marie-Louise bequeathed the diadem and accompanying jewelry to her Hapsburg aunt, Archduchess Elise.
The jewelry was acquired by Van Cleef & Arpels from one of Archduchess Elise’s descendants, Archduke Karl Stefan Hapsburg of Sweden, in 1953, along with a document attesting to their provenance. During the period from May 1954 to June 1956, the emeralds were removed from the diadem by Van Cleef & Arpels and sold individually in pieces of jewelry. A newspaper advertisement placed by the company in 1955 promised: “An emerald for you from the historic Napoleonic Tiara…” Sometime between 1956 and 1962, Van Cleef & Arpels mounted the turquoise into the diadem. In 1962, the diadem with turquoise, was displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris along with the necklace, earrings, and comb, as part of a special exhibition on Empress Marie-Louise. Marjorie Merriweather Post purchased the diadem from Van Cleef & Arpels and donated it to the Smithsonian in 1971. The diadem* is an elaborate design of scrolls, palmettes and medallions and contains 79 Persian turquoise stones (totaling 540cts) and 1,006 old mine cut diamonds (totaling 700cts) set in silver and gold.
*A crown encircles the head in a complete circle and can be worn by men and women; diadems and tiaras are forms of crowns: a diadem is not a complete circle (usually ¾ way around), it has an opening in the back and can also be worn by men and women; a tiara (semi-circular high crown) is a smaller headpiece worn at the front of the head, by women only.
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