The National Portrait Gallery, a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, is located at Eighth and F Streets, N.W., at Gallery Place Metro.
Admission is free, as are all programs unless otherwise noted.
All films are shown in the Gallery's Theater. Sign language and oral interpreters are available with two weeks' notice. Accessibility services are available upon request. Philippe Halsman photographed for Life magazine from the 1940s through the 1970s, achieving a body of work that includes 101 covers-more than any other photographer. His photographs of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Salvador Dali have become modern icons.