Shannon Perich

M.A., Museum Studies, George Washington University, 1996 B.F.A, Art (emphasis on photography), University of Arizona, 1993 B.A., Art History, University of Arizona, 1993 The Photographic History Collection (PHC) is the first collection of photography in a US museum dedicated to the history of the medium. It was founded as its own collecting section in the summer of 1896. The PHC is an international collection with nearly 250,000 photographs, photographic objects, ephemera, apparatus and equipment. I've worked in PHC for more than two decades and have a deep knowledge of the collection and the potentail research topics and histories yet to be told. I'm interested in photography, especially where individual stories and national narratives intersect and photography plays a role in make that dynamic visible. The Learning Lab hosts a continously growing collection of objects from PHC as they become visible on line. See also collections.si.edu for specific searches.