Recording A Changing Nation: Interview With Curator John Jacob

A gelatin silver print of a street with a car in the foreground, clothes handing in the middle ground and a building in the background.

Roland L. Freeman 
born Baltimore, MD 1936
South Capital Street at M Street, Washington DC, February 1972 from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements
1972, printed 1982
gelatin silver print
sheet: 11 x 14 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of George H. Dalsheimer
©1972 Roland L. Freeman

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Join John Jacob, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at SAAM, for a close-up look at photography, a medium marked by both its accessibility and its complexity. What are some of the choices that photographers make? How might we “read” a photograph? What might be the value of having photographs of everyday people in the collection of a national museum like SAAM?

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      Join John Jacob, McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at SAAM, for a close-up look at photography, a medium marked by both its accessibility and its complexity. What are some of the choices that photographers make? How might we “read” a photograph? What might be the value of having photographs of everyday people in the collection of a national museum like SAAM?

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