A new collection of archival photographs from the Smithsonian is encouraging people to re-explore their windows and intimate spaces — especially in a time when many photographers are stuck in lockdown.
Fred J. Maroon/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian InstitutionJournalists in the White House press room. Aug. 8, 1974.Self-portrait in dark window, 1973.Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian InstitutionMalcolm Cosgrove-Davies/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Windows"serve as barriers between the outside and inside, the public and private, the external and the internal, and dividers and thresholds between danger and safety," curator Shannon Perich told NPR."Windows also control light, something photography is dependent upon." Working from home, Perich assembled an initial collection of 79 images — more will be added — drawn from the museum's archive.
As Perich's work shifts online, important sensory aspects of curation are lost in the electronic process, she said. "We are definitely missing the experience of seeing the physical photographs to understand scale, processes, paper texture, tones and colors, use, conditions and so on, which impacts how we understand and interpret the physical object," Perich said.
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