NMAI Mall Museum, Exterior, Lily Pond, Ducks, Flowers. (Photo by Katherine Fogden, NMAI)
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I hope to show through the contrast of the original photo - where native American people are being watched over by U.S. soldiers - and the place of honor occupied by the NMAI on the national mall that our country has made great strides in the last century. How far can we progress in this century?
A composite image created with layering and illumination effects in PaintShop Pro.
The top layer consists of the artist's fingers shot with a Nikon D3100 DSLR camera using the built-in flash at ISO100.
The 2nd layer is an image from the National Archive and Records Administration library. It is from a collection entitled Photographs of the American West: 1861-1912: The Disinherited. It is the 73rd photo in the collection with a caption reading "Shoshone Indians at Ft. Washakie, Wyoming Indian reservation .. . Chief Washakie (at left) extends his right arm." Some of the Shoshones are dancing as the soldiers look on, 1892. 111-SC-8 7800." The full URL to the image location is www.archives.gov/research/american-west/images/073.jpg
The Background image is courtesy of R.A. Whiteside and The National Museum of the American Indian, blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2009/08/whats-your-favorite-part-of...
This monkey skeleton is a detail from one of the exhibits to be found at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's featured attractions, Osteology: Hall of Bones. This exhibit displays a variety of vertebrate skeletons grouped by their evolutionary relationships.
In the museum's Osteology Hall, you can compare a human and gorilla, bone for bone, count the number of neck vertebrae in a human and a giraffe and observe skeletal features that are unique to reptiles or to fish.
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
"[The Hirshhorn is] the biggest piece of abstract art in town-a huge, hollowed cylinder raised on four massive piers, in absolute command of its walled compound on the Mall.... The circular fountain...is a grand concoction...that for good reason has become the museum's visual trademark." Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Post, November 4, 1989