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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Warren Beatty

Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat

John Travolta

Harvey Fierstein

Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith

Cheryl Tiegs

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Computer Society

Broncomania vs. Cowboy Cool

Brooklyn and Soto, from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio

John Paul II

The Shah of Iran

Prince Charles

Grace Murray Hopper

Janet Maxey and Carolyn Smith, from the series Siblings

The Brown Sisters, Harwichport, Massachusetts

Chuck Berry

Faye Dunaway

Cyrus Vance

Muhammad Ali - Fist

Ralph Ellison

Muhammad Ali - Hand on Chin

A Tourist's China

Gelsey Kirkland

Louise Bourgeois

Jimmy Carter

A New Era in the Air

Merce Cunningham

Coal Miner

China's Great Leap Outward

Anatoli Borisovich Shcharansky

Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque

Richard Nixon


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