Cool Shades: Eyewear at Smithsonian

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

Grandma

John Ford

Untitled (Man's Face Wearing Hat and Sunglasses)

Taj Mahal, 1989

General Douglas MacArthur

Summer

Sonny Rollins, 1989

Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, and others

sunglasses

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

Sunglasses, Rucksack #1B, Survival Kit, Skylab 4

Jefferson Airplane

Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II and another soldier in Vietnam

Henry Miller

Raices antiguas/visiones nuevas (Bato con sunglasses)

Black Skull with Sunglasses

Sunglasses, Apollo 11

Joe Bataan

Bill and Hillary Clinton

eskimo eyeshades; sunglasses

Photograph of Spc. James E. Brown II during the Vietnam War

Chanel sunglasses

Professor Longhair, 1973