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WASHINGTON—Unlike the thousands of enthusiastic Washington interns with dreams of cavorting with the powerful and hobnobbing over cocktails with members of the Bush Administration, I had absolutely no expectations of my summer in the nation’s capital. I thought my internship in exhibition design would...
Early on, to move past the “What if I really do have to give tours?” anxiety, I took a quick orienting trip to the museum the day before my scheduled start. The unproductive excursion merely revealed hundreds of sweaty, sunburned tourists, sub-zero temperatures...
As it turns out, much of my time is thankfully spent outside of the museum’s public areas. I don’t give tours (but if asked politely, I gladly give directions). Had I worked in a glass office, there would not be much to see. About...
Well, I don’t notice the quiet ones, anyway. The tourists can hear our conversations, and unfortunately we can hear theirs too. Every few minutes, a family walks by and has the same conversation in the same manner. The husband shouts extremely loudly in an authoritative voice, ?...
In an annex to the exhibition is a map locating the places he photographed, as well as copies of his books The Negative, The Print and The Camera. His sensitivity to nature was backed up by supreme technical knowledge and control. To him a negative was not just the record...