The Larry J. West Collection features an array of early photography, (above: Untitled (pin, woman in hat) by unidentified artist, ca. 1865), presenting a stunning new visual record. L. J. West ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

What does a photograph look like? Is it just a picture pasted on a wall, or is it something you can hold and move with? Maybe, according to Peter Bunnell, it’s all of the above. This is the question ...

The collections of the National Museum of the American Indian include thousands of objects and images acquired during expeditions conducted or sponsored by our predecessor institution, the Museum of ...

Earlier this month, the university unveiled Lux, its new online platform that allows users to search across the 17 million objects in its massive holdings, which span the collections of the Yale ...

Hooks Brothers, "Pullman Porters," undated, silver emulsion photograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Dr. Robert L. Drapkin Collection, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H.

A special ceremony held last week in Australia celebrated 17 sacred objects from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia being repatriated to the Arrernte, Warlpiri and ...

A hairbrush is just a hairbrush, except when it represents the person to whom it once belonged. That realization is the impact of a new collection of photographs now being shown at the Skirball ...