June 26, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyFirst Photograph to travel to Europe for first time in 50 years The First Photograph will be loaned, along with 119 other images and photography-related items from the Harry Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection, to the Reiss Englehorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition “The Birth of Photography-Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection.” The exhibition runs from September 9 through January 6,… read more
June 22, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsAlice in Burnt Orange: Salvador Dalí’s rendition of the Lewis Carroll classic at the Ransom Center Sarah Sussman is a graduate student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Though currently writing about nineteenth-century American Spiritualism, she is interested in Surrealist art, children’s literature, and British literature as well. Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel that stretches the imagination and playfully defies logic has… read more
June 21, 2012, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, PhotographyRansom Center appoints Chief Curator of Photography The Ransom Center has appointed Jessica S. McDonald, a curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as its new chief curator of photography. McDonald begins her position at the Ransom Center in September. As the Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, McDonald will… read more
