March 28, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingSeminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings Dr. Sherre L. Paris—lecturer at The University of Texas School of Journalism—teaches her undergraduate class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. During the three-hour-long-seminar, which meets every Tuesday in a classroom adjacent to the Ransom Center’s Reading Room, undergraduates work with primary source materials from the Center’s photography collections. “Cultural Compass” spoke with Dr. Paris about her experience teaching at the Ransom Center.
March 14, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAuthor W. K. Stratton Uses Norman Mailer Papers in "Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion" In Chicago in the fall of 1962, heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson squared up to face Sonny Liston, also known as “The Bear,” in a monumental fight. Liston, a former convict with ties to organized crime, seemed the opposite of the ambivalent and introspective Patterson, who was known to help an… read more
February 21, 2013, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographySenior Research Curator of Photography Discusses Photography in the Digital Age In “Technology: No Place For Wimps,” Ransom Center Senior Research Curator of Photography Roy Flukinger joins Carol Henry, fine-art photographer, and James M. Reilly, founder and director of the Image Performance Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in a discussion about photography in the digital age. The discussion, which… read more
