The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the May 9 opening of Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks, a retrospective exhibition of more than 50 photographs representing the finest works of the artist's prolific career. These images were selected by Parks himself before his death in 2006.

"Young Americans," a dynamic new series of photographs by Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright, will debut at the High Museum of Art from May 3 to August 10, 2008. The exhibition explores the identities of U.S. citizens and immigrants pursuing citizenship by presenting portraits of Americans aged 18 to 25, each posing with an American flag.

The exhibition revolves around man’s fascination with capturing the essence of people, in order to recognize itself and make itself recognizable in the gaze of the other. To this end, the show brings together 111 images from leading figures of the first half of the 20th century.

The Smithsonian Photography Initiative has launched 'click! photography changes everything,' an interdisciplinary, Web-based forum at www.click.si.edu. The goal of 'click!' is to stimulate an unprecedented dialogue about the ways photography enables people to document and actively interact with the world.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently acquired 34 documentary photographs by Cherel Ito. The two suites of works are from Ito's North American travels—one, from 1968, of Mississippi and the Ozarks, and the second, from 1968 and 1980, of various American Indian Nations. Photographs by Cherel Ito: Recent Donations to the Collection is on view at NMWA through May 25, 2008.

A display of stunning photographs of the self-governing Maroon community in Jamaica will go on show at Museum in Docklands through 31 August as part of the acclaimed London, Sugar & Slavery gallery’s rolling community exhibition space.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works by Ansel Adams (1902-1984), one of the most widely admired American photographers of the 20th century, in its new Julien Levy Gallery for photographs in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building.

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 presents a fascinating look at the artistic movement that transformed photography from a tool of documentation to one of the most exciting means of visual expression of the twentieth century.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the second venue for Miwa Yanagi: Deutsche Bank Collection, the Japanese photographer Miwa Yanagi's first solo museum show in the United States. Comprising more than 30 large-scale photographs and video work from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the exhibition is on view through May 4, 2008.

Eye on Third Ward, the annual exhibition of photographs by students from Jack Yates High School designed to express the distinctive identity of Houston's historic Third Ward, this year for the first time includes photographs from the teens' personal lives. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on February 10, where it will be on view in the Audrey Jones Beck Building through May 26, 2008.

"He stood with his camera by the cradle of the state in the making," Newsweek photographer Shlomo Arad said of Paul Goldman, whose work is the focus of a new exhibition celebrating the 60 th anniversary of Israel's statehood. "To Return to the Land…" Paul Goldman's Photographs of the Birth of Israel will open at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on February 17. A press preview will take place on February 15 from 10 a.m.12: 00 p.m.

Japan says it will complain to Australia about its release of graphic photographs of whales being killed by a Japanese fleet in Antarctic waters.