What your job is. Thank you, my job is assistant director for a culture at the Smithsonian National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, historians, curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, the books, a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography, we also have over 500,000 photographs in the National Museums of american Archive Center. So i have been working very hard, i in the year ive been at the museum. Ive a 30 year career at the smithsonian, but i only joined this museum last year. And these photographs of the archives. The. It has become more and more familiar with it over time, so when i was asked to think about the opportunity to consider what photographs we have online for the public to see and for students to study online, it was a great opportunity, because i was able to review and get really deep into all of the collections of photo
My job is assistant director for history and culture at the Smithsonians National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians and curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, and the books and a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects, but i have a real interest in photography, and we have also 500,000 photographs in the National Museums Archive Center and ive been working very hard in the year that ive been at this museum. I have a 30year career at the smithsonian and i just joined the museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me at the Archive Center. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote this article . A virtual tour of history . Thanks, richard. We have a great magazine. American indian magazine that is a members magazine for our museum and have become more and more familiar with it offer time so when i was asked for t
Were joined by the smithsonians michel delaney. Tell us what your title is and what your job is . Thank you. My job is assistant director for culture at the smithsonian Smithsonians National team of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians the curators at the museum who are in charge of producing exhibitions, the books a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums, and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects. But i have a real interest in photography and we have also over 500,000 photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian archives center. So i have been working very hard in the years that ive been spent at this museum. I am a 30 year career at the smithsonian but i just joined the American Indian museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me is an archivist. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote the this article a virtual tour of history. Thanks richard. We have a great magazine. American
The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 240 years later is just fine. We are susceptible to this historical use of photographs when we do not know better. I