July 16, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: A page from the first draft of Don DeLillo’s "Underworld" Don DeLillo once noted in an interview, “The significance of baseball, more than other sports, lies in the very nature of the game—slow and spread out and rambling. It’s a game of history and memory, a kind of living archive.” DeLillo explored those aspects of the sport in his 1997… read more
July 11, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the galleries: Jason Reed’s "Motel, Terlingua" and W. D. Smithers’s "View of Study Butte, Texas" As photographer Jason Reed sat in the reading room of the Ransom Center, awaiting a box of Walker Evans photographs, he noticed a binder on the reference shelf nearby. In what he calls a “moment of coincidence,” he picked it up and discovered notes and captions describing photographs of West… read more
July 9, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the galleries: Alvin Langdon Coburn’s "Vortograph" and Barry Stone’s "Sky 3099" Although almost a century separates Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortograph (1917) and Barry Stone’s Sky 3099 (2012), Stone still finds parallels between the works. It is this connection between old and new that informs the Ransom Center’s current exhibition, Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive. Created in conjunction with the Lakes… read more
