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The Hirshhorn Museum Library, founded in 1969, is administered by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL). It is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, and emerging art forms. the Library's web page contains a video clip from an Ed Ruscha lecture filmed June 29, 2000.

 

The History Channel via truveo.com offers a 1m:41s clip "Edward Steichen on photography as an art form". Truveo says: "Edward Steichen, born in Luxembourg on March 27, 1879, is credited with transforming photography into a recognized art form. Brought up in Michigan and Wisconsin, Steichen was trained as a commercial lithographer and painter, but his true interest lay in photography. In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz, the best-known American photographer of the day, invited him to New York to found Photo-Secession, an organization dedicated to promoting photography as a fine art. Steichen and Stieglitz were largely successful in winning respect for their medium and also promoted other European modern art at their influential gallery. During World War I, Steichen was a photographer for the U.S. Army and innovated aerial photography. By the war's end, he had become a dedicated proponent of realism, and he burned all his paintings as confirmation of his confidence in photography's ability to achieve that end. Between the wars, he was New York's leading portrait photographer, and his pictures from that period now form a vital record of American culture. In 1948, he began a fifteen-year tenure as director of the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He died in 1973".

 

American art from the Howard University Collection is part of a national touring exhibition. This major exhibition and conservation project was a three-year collaborative effort by a network of cultural institutions. It was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio Museum of Harlem, in association with the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Howard University, and five other Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Howard Universsity Libraries presents videos in which Tritobia Benjamin, Ph.D. discusses African Amerian artists including Edward M Bannister, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Elizabeth Catlett and many others.


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