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Cool Shades: Eyewear at Smithsonian

An eye-catching journey that reveals how eyewear shapes fashion and identity.


Elton John

Spectacles

Bob Dylan in the Solarium at the Castle

Bootsy Collins style star-shaped mirrored lens sunglasses

John F. Kennedy

Sunglasses, Collins, Apollo 11

PCR Robot

Positive Reflections

Photograph of Mary J. Blige at the NY Music Awards after party at China Club

Spectacles

Hunter S. Thompson

Diana Vreeland

Sunglasses, Bill Clinton, 1992

Roy Orbison

Isaac Hayes in His Office at Stax Records, Memphis, Tennessee

spectacles, tinted; sunglasses

John Ford

Taj Mahal, 1989

Untitled (Man's Face Wearing Hat and Sunglasses)

General Douglas MacArthur

Sonny Rollins, 1989

sunglasses

Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, and others

Sunglasses For Doll

Harry the Hipster Puppet from Sam and Friends

Dizzy Gillespie, 1973

C. J. Chenier, 1993

sunglasses; goggles

Fiorucci: Two Cherubs

Bust of Miles Davis

spectacles, tinted; sunglasses

Sunglasses, Apollo, Training

Sunglasses, Survival Kit, Gemini IV

The Mozamgola Caper

Peace Demonstrator


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