Photographer and MacArthur fellow Susan Meiselas is best known for her work covering political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 80s. The International Center of Photography (ICP) is hosting the first U.S. overview of her work, "Susan Meiselas: In History." It's on display through January 4, 2009.

This website presents academic research articles on the early history of photography published by R. D. Wood between 1970 and 1997. Three pages of unpublished correspondence on the subject are also provided, and, as time goes on, articles that have never reached printed publication will be added. The full contents are easily available from the hypertext menu in the frame on the left of your screen. A full bibliographic list is also provided below on this home page which sometimes also provides additional comments regarding the original publication.

Welcome, fellow photographers from around the world. We have collected quotations that we hope will help promote the art of photography. If the reader is aware of others that deserve to be recognized here, we would appreciate your sending them to us. We have tried to accurately credit all sources for the quotations we have used. If anyone can offer corrections or additional information, it will be appreciated. If any source objects to being quoted here, or if we have strayed into any copyrighted materials, our sincere apology - please advise us and, if you wish, your quotation will be removed. Our goal is to include a short biography for each source. Knowing the contribution of each source, and the time period each lived and worked, may add additional meaning to the quotations listed here. If you have information about any source (birth date, death, employment, interesting anecdotes, accomplishments), please send it to us. Your help is needed to make this an interesting site. We intend to update this page monthly, so please check back from time to time. Thanks for your visit, and enjoy!

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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all. Montage, clockwise from top left: Destitute pea pickers in California, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange; "I want you for the U.S. Army", by James Montgomery Flagg; Modern Gengi: viewing in the snow, by Toyokuni Utagawa; T.S. Eastabrook House, Chicago, IL; Caricature curiosity, by George Moutard Woodward Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations. See the Library's Legal Notices for more information.

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Every year renowned photographers are invited to speak at the School at ICP as part of The Photographers Lecture Series