October 2, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film75 Years, 75 Days: Donate now to support the fall 2014 “Gone With The Wind” exhibition The Harry Ransom Center is raising $50,000 in 75 days for the Center’s 2014 exhibition The Making of Gone With The Wind. This Hollywood classic premiered in 1939 and will mark its 75th anniversary in 2014. Film producer David O. Selznick’s 1939 epic film Gone With The Wind was embroiled… read more
October 1, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography“Magnum Photos into the Digital Age” The Harry Ransom Center presents the symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age.” Scheduled for October 25–27, the symposium is in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age. Twelve Magnum photographers, including Christopher Anderson, Bruno Barbey, Michael Christopher Brown, Eli Reed, Jim… read more
September 24, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography, Research + TeachingTeaching Magnum: What we can learn from Magnum Photos Photojournalist Susan Meiselas broke tradition when she photographed the “people’s revolt” in Nicaragua in color. In 1981, black and white was still the accepted medium in which to depict conflict. Yet, she described the choice as best capturing “the vibrancy and optimism of the resistance.” Learn more about Meiselas’s photograph… read more
September 23, 2013, Filed Under: PhotographyMagnum Photos collection donated to the Ransom Center The Magnum Photos collection, which contains nearly 200,000 press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, has been donated to the Ransom Center. The gift was made by Michael and Susan Dell, Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, and John and Amy Phelan. Mr. Dell is Founder, Chairman and CEO of… read more
September 11, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsJim Crace shortlisted for Booker Prize Author Jim Crace, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Harvest (Nan A. Talese/Picador). Crace was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his 1997 novel Quarantine. The winner of the Booker will be announced at a… read more
September 10, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyOpening today: "Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age" The exhibition Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age opens today and will be on view through January 5. Magnum Photos photographers have produced some of the most memorable images of the last century, shaping history and revolutionizing photography’s influence on modern culture. Founded in 1947, it was the… read more
