Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery

Encompassing more than one hundred works, from the Daguerreian era to today’s digital age, this stunning volume will explore the evolution of photographic portraiture through treasures from the National Portrait Gallery’s wide-ranging collection at the Smithsonian Institution.

Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the photography collection’s founding, the book will highlight the medium’s role in democratizing portraiture. Works by leading photographers, including Richard Avedon...