The photo exhibition "Lola Alvarez Bravo" opens at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, International Gallery Wednesday, Sept. 5. It is presented by the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month 2007 (Sept. 15-Oct. 15).

The Jewish Museum will present Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson from September 16, 2007 through February 3, 2008. This exhibition features nearly 40 intimate and moving photos spanning the years 1957 to 1990.

Before the polish of the finished photograph comes a long and laboured process. This new display examines the techniques of contemporary image-making in fashion and advertising through the work of five leading photographers: Elaine Constantine, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, Alexi Lubomirski, Sølve Sundsbø and Paul Wetherell.

The range and creativity of amateur photography in the United States is revealed in approximately 200 anonymous works in the exhibition The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson. It is the first major exhibition, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, to examine the evolution of snapshot imagery in America.

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) was one of the most photographed women of recent times. This display of photographs, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of her tragic death, looks at her life in the public eye as a royal wife, mother, high-profile charity worker and international fashion icon.

Following an open competition, forty photographs of contemporary Britain have been selected by a panel of experts for display as part of Tate Britain’s current How We Are: Photographing Britain show. Like the exhibition, which brings together over 500 images by 100 photographers, the winning entries demonstrate a wide range of approaches from portraiture to landscape and from formal to documentary photography.

New York International Center of Photography presents drawings from Uncommon Places collection The exhibition will run through September 9, 2007.

An exhibition in two parts will highlight an extraordinary gift of fine photographs from Frederick B. Scheel to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Collected over a period of nearly forty years, this gift of more than six hundred prints comprises work by 106 masters of photography from the late nineteenth century until the 1960s.

Tacoma Art Museum’s new exhibition Veiled Northwest: Photographs by Mary Randlett presents forty-one of her black and white images of Northwest landscapes. Admired for her portrait work of Northwest artists and writers, Randlett’s landscape photography has been less well known.

New York International Center of Photography presents works by Photographer David Seymour, on view through September 9, 2007.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, on view through September 3, 2007 at Metropolitan Museum, features the work of artists who use the camera to call our attention to the poetic richness latent in ordinary things.

ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is on view at Penn Museum through September 23. Forty black-and-white photographs, selected from the tens of thousands of expedition images in Penn Museum’s extensive Archives, offer a kaleidoscopic view of some of the Museum’s many field projects.