October 29, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the Galleries: Jonas Bendiksen’s contact sheets In 2012, Magnum introduced the sale of carefully reproduced contact sheets, offering “the opportunity to own a piece of Magnum’s history.” Indeed the digital turn in photography has forced the contact sheet, once an inextricable part of the photographic process, into obsolescence. Contact sheets, made when negatives are printed directly… read more
October 28, 2013, Filed Under: CatalogingCarson McCullers, Style Icon Costumes and personal effects at the Ransom Center have the potential to create a unique portrait of an author or artist, and can aid in understanding the anatomy and mechanics of an actor’s performance. Graduate intern Jenn Shapland reflects on her experience of cataloging and examining objects in the Carson… read more
October 24, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the Galleries: Susan Meiselas In a stunning break with the black-and-white tradition of war photography, Susan Meiselas’s pulsating color images documenting the resistance against—and ultimate insurrection of—the brutal Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua were published in magazines and newspapers around the world. The revolutionaries quickly appropriated her photographs, adapting them for billboards, postage stamps, posters,… read more
October 23, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsKnopf archive documents Nobel Prize–winner Alice Munro’s early struggles with the genre of the short story On Thursday, October 10, the Nobel Prize Foundation awarded the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature to author Alice Munro, making Munro the 13th woman to win the award since its inception in 1901, and the first ever female winner from Canada. Munro—unlike most previous prize winners—is renowned not for novels… read more
October 22, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography“Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan” exhibition opens today at the Ransom Center Eli Reed has worked as a professional photographer with Magnum Photos since 1988 and as a clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin since 2005. To Reed, his success directly results from the simple motivating question, “Why would you want to be less than what you… read more
October 18, 2013, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsJames Turrell events on campus this weekend include talk by Turrell and tour of Ransom Center display To complement The University of Texas at Austin’s new James Turrell piece The Color Inside opening on campus this week, a selection of books and artworks associated with Turrell are on view at the Harry Ransom Center in the third-floor Director’s Gallery. Several events are planned around campus today and… read more
