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Smithsonian: Magazine: Young Eyes on Calcutta
to the prostitutes and brothel owners whose lives she hoped to document. "Photography there is completely taboo," says Briski, 38, who now lives in New York City. "People there don't usually see Westerners, let alone people with cameras." She spent countless...
Smithsonian: Magazine: What's Up
September. Origins of Ecotourism Lured by romantic landscapes, 19th-century nature lovers flocked to Yosemite, Niagara Falls and the Catskills. Travel-related ephemera and paintings (including an 1873 Winslow Homer) are at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt until October 22. Go With the Floe &...
Smithsonian: Magazine: Freeze Frame
and marked "W. Bentley." Horsely remembered the glass plates. Negatives and positives were reunited. Wilson Bentley, the archivists discovered, had been a fascinating character. Were it not for Bentley's tinkering with cameras during the early days of the medium, he m...
Smithsonian: Magazine: On the Prowl
you guys, you wanna see a jaguar?" The jaguar is not supposed to be here. Not in the United States. Not in 2007. And certainly not in the desert thorn scrub that wildlife biologists said was too harsh and too dry to contain enough prey for a jaguar to...
Smithsonian: Magazine: Saving Mali's Migratory Elephants
patience and lots of memory cards for their digital cameras, however, elephant researchers have amassed enough photographs of the camera-shy animals to identify about 250 individuals. Freelance photographer Carlton Ward Jr. provided 3,000 pictures to the photo identification project; t...
Smithsonian: Magazine: Reading Between the Lines
naked through the streets of Syracuse, a Greek city-state on what is now the island of Sicily, shouting "Eureka." ("I have found it.") According to legend—and it is more likely legend than fact—the third-century b.c. mathematician had just discovered that he co...
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