Jeff Campagna

PHOTOGRAPHER: MITCH FEINBERG

"National Treasure" spread featuring the 1967 STP-Paxton Turbocar from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

PHOTOGRAPHER - CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring C-3PO from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: HANNAH WHITAKER

"National Treasure" spread featuring the guitar that Prince played in Purple Rain from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTIAN ALS

Brutally killed thousands of years ago, Europe's famed bog bodies are starting to reveal their secrets

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 34 / CHOSEN
COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON PIETRA

Nearly forgotten today, the pistol-packing explorer Wendell Phillips–reputed to be an inspiration for Indiana Jones–stirred controversy in his archaeological quest for traces of the Queen of Sheba.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Neil Armstrong’s extravehicular visor worn during his first walk on the moon photographed for a feature on the backstory of the Apollo 11 mission.

PHOTOGAPHER: YASU

Roughly two million year years old, this simple stone tool is the oldest human-made object in the Smithsonian.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAIRE ROSEN

”National Treasure” spread featuring the “Ole Bull” Stradivarius, made in 1687, from the National Museum of American History collections, photographed with flowers and props reminiscent of a Dutch still life from the period.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREA MODICA

"National Treasure" spread featuring AAGPBL pitcher/outfielder Betsy “Sockum” Jochum’s uniform and spikes from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: a rare prehistoric wood-carved mask produced by the Spiro peoples of present-day Oklahoma from the National Museum of the American Indian.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAIRE ROSEN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Martha, the last passenger pigeon, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: TOBIAS HUTZLER

"Artifact" spread featuring the Horten Ho 229 V3 prototype from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center.

SPD56 PRINT MEDAL FINALIST - SECTION / SINGLE ISSUE / PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring James Brown's organ from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAGGIE WEST

"National Treasure" spread featuring samples of Trinite from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Tucker 48 from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG

"National Treasure" spread featuring the handcuffs used to secure the Unabomber in a shack near Lincoln, MT; from Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

PHOTOGRAPHER: WENDEL A. WHITE

hot for the monthly “National Treasure” spread that features one object from the Smithsonian museum collections. Here, an 1868 ticket to President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial from the National Museum of American History. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NICHOLAS ALAN COPE

Shot for a special feature including leading artists’ interpretations on the Star-Spangled Banner.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ALBERTO G. PURAS

A fourth-century glass plate found in Spain engraved with one of the earliest depictions of Jesus, framed by two apostles, shot for a feature on the historical archaeology of Jesus. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID BURNETT

David Burnett shot this feature in the photographic style of the period, using his Speed Graphic to create images to accompany the story of how a newspaper man’s bravery rocked the racist establishment of the South–and heralded a new era of political satire.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAN WINTERS

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) from the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: Marian Anderson’s fur coat from her historic Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, from the Anacostia Community Museum.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 30 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: MANDY BARKER

Millions of tons of artificial waste are swirling in our waters and washing up on our coasts worldwide. Beachcombing artist Mandy Barker's stunning images of plastic debris collected from 30 Hong Kong beaches show that we're in a sea of trouble.  

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 32 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: ETHAN HILL

”National Treasure” spread featuring a toy bus from LGBTQ activist and journalist Bil Browning. It was instrumental in helping him cope with bullying during his childhood, and it is now part of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NIGEL COX

"National Treasure" spread featuring a DC-3 from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.  

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring a love letter written by Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS CRISMAN

"National Treasure" spread featuring “Whistler’s Father” from the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring an early draft of the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.  

PHOTOGRAPHER: RICHARD BARNES

"National Treasure" spread featuring the new T-Rex skeleton in the new Dino Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ioulex

"National Treasure" spread featuring a 1979 Sony Walkman from the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: the microphone used by FDR during his fireside chats, from the National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON PIETRA

"National Treasure" spread featuring the ABA basketball from the National Museum of African American History & Culture

PHOTOGRAPHER: HENRY LEUTWYLER

”National Treasure” spread featuring one of Cassius Clay’s training gloves used during a January 1964 session preparing for his bout with Sonny Liston–from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

PHOTOGRAPHER: STEPHEN LEWIS

”National Treasure” spread featuring a wooden jigsaw puzzle that Ellis Island officials required immigrants to build as a crude intelligence test in the early 20th century from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREA MODICA

”National Treasure” spread featuring the 1939 Glenn Miller orchestra recording of “Moonlight Serenade” as the B side of a 78 rpm, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MITCH FEINBERG

"National Treasure" spread featuring a homemade flag carried by a local science class during a march on the first Earth Day.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON PIETRA

At a graveyard in Northern Ireland, a scientist looking for new antibiotics hits pay dirt.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SUSAN SEUBERT

"National Treasure" spread featuring the umpire mask of Emmett Ashford, the first African American umpire in Major League Baseball, from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: this custom-made inscribed Selmer trumpet belonged to Louis Armstrong; from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “!01 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: the pocket-size Bible that slave uprising leader Nat Turner was clasping when he was captured after a manhunt.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAIRE ROSEN

”National Treasure” spread featuring a young Civil War soldier’s long-lost letters from the collection of Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SUSAN SEUBERT

”National Treasure” spread featuring the Negro Motorist Green-Book from the National Museum of African American Museum of History and Culture. Listing hotels, restaurants and other businesses open to African-Americans, it was an invaluable guide for Jim Crow-era travelers.

PHOTOGRAPHER: KELLY MARSHALL

”National Treasure” spread featuring Edmonia Lewis’ Death of Cleopatra sculpture from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GREGORY REID

Long before Google Glass, humans donned high-tech devices that synchronized our every move.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Bell X-1 from the National Air and Space Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JESSICA PETTWAY

"National Treasure" spread featuring journalist Ethel Payne’s wide-brimmed hat from Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: IOULEX

"National Treasure" spread featuring Fonzie’s leather jacket from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MARK LAITA

Selection from the "Wild America" category of Smithsonian Magazine's "101 Objects That Made America" issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections.

PHOTOGRAPHER: HANNAH WHITAKER

”National Treasure” spread featuring pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock’s microscope, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: KELLY MARSHALL

”National Treasure” spread featuring an 1828 sampler made by Leah Maguire, from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: YASU MIZOI

"National Treasure" spread featuring two chocolate bars that Hershey’s devised for the U.S. military, Ration D, and the tastier (and more enduring) Tropical Chocolate Bar, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

PHOTOGRAPHER: HANNAH WHITAKER

"National Treasure" spread featuring an inverted Jenny postage stamp from Smithsonian’s National Postage Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CALEB STEIN

In the mountains of Carrara, Italy, where Michelangelo sourced gleaming white marble for his masterpieces, robot sculptors are being programmed to carry on the iconic region’s artistic legacy.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS GUNN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the blue whale skull from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHELSEA KYLE

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Tiffany Dragonfly Lamp from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum.