November 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyTed Spagna’s photography featured in new book, “SLEEP” In 1975, photographer Ted Spagna (1943–1989) began his career-defining project that would revolutionize the artistic interpretation and even scientific understanding of sleep. Using a time-lapse camera, Spagna photographed a variety of sleeping subjects for an entire night. The results, now known as “sleep portraiture,” provided a unique bird’s eye perspective… read more
November 22, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsNotes in Norman Mailer archive shed light on Lee Harvey Oswald The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas shook America’s understanding of trust, security, and rational behavior. In the five decades following, a multitude of historians and writers have been moved to study the event, many with particular interest in the assassin himself, Lee… read more
November 6, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsJames Salter speaks this week at the Ransom Center Writer James Salter, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, will discuss his life and work with Professor Thomas F. Staley on Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. Salter is the author of A Sport and a Pastime and the acclaimed new novel All That Is. He received the… read more
