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Article: 'WOMEN OF OUR TIME: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS' OPEN AT SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY ON OCT. 10
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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The Smithsonian Institution issued the following press release:
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is pleased to present "Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs." The exhibition is a selection of 90 images, drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery's collection, that celebrate women who have challenged and changed America over the past century. It will be on view through Feb. 1, 2009.
"'Women of Our Time' is at once a celebration of its subjects and the art of photographic portraiture," said Martin Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. "Distinguished photographers capture the shifting roles of American women in the 20th century by creating visual ...