October 18, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingScholar: Will libraries of the future preserve cultural heritage? Michele V. Cloonan, Professor at Simmons College and Editor-in-Chief of Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, presented the talk “Exeunt Libri: Will Libraries of the Future Preserve Cultural Heritage?” for the 2013 Donald G. Davis, Jr. Lecture on Thursday, October 17. Below, she shares her thoughts about preservation. Preservation is all… read more
October 16, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsCurator of Norman Bel Geddes exhibition discusses influence of the industrial designer Donald Albrecht, exhibition organizer and curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, discusses industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes’s influence on the American landscape. Albrecht—editor of Norman Bel Geddes Designs America (Abrams)—emphasizes the breadth of the Bel Geddes collection at the Ransom Center, which… read more
October 16, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingNorman Mailer’s biographer J. Michael Lennon discusses research for his book “Norman Mailer: A Double Life” In January 1971, J. Michael Lennon wrote a letter of encouragement to Norman Mailer after watching the author get into a raucous televised debate with Gore Vidal. Mailer responded, sparking a lifelong correspondence between the pair. Lennon went on to become Mailer’s personal archivist and authorized biographer, as well as… read more
October 14, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the Galleries: Josef Koudelka Initially drawn to their traditional folk music, Josef Koudelka (b. 1939) photographed the nomadic Romani people—or Gypsies—of Czechoslovakia and Romania for nearly ten years. Most of the photographs in his seminal 1975 book Gypsies were taken in Eastern Slovakia between 1962 and 1968. In his sensitive study of these communities,… read more
October 10, 2013, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Fleur Cowles archive sheds light on woman behind pioneering magazine “Flair” Teal Triggs is a Professor of Graphic Design and Associate Dean at Royal College of Art, London. She spent time at the Ransom Center over the summer exploring materials related to Fleur Cowles with funding from the Fleur Cowles Endowment Fund. She shares some of her findings here. With the… read more
October 8, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the Galleries: Robert Capa Robert Capa (1913–1954), proclaimed “The Greatest War Photographer in the World” by the Picture Post in 1938, famously created some of the only surviving photographs of the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944. When his rolls of film arrived for development at the Life magazine office in London, a darkroom… read more
