Steven Hoelscher, editor of Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, will discuss the book at The Contemporary Austin tonight in an event hosted by Austin Center for Photography, University of Texas Press, and The Contemporary. The arrival in December 2009 of some 200,000 press prints from… read more
Exhibitions + Events
Ransom Center partners with Texas Exes on World War I-themed anniversary tour
2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, a watershed event that claimed millions of lives and changed the course of the twentieth century. The Ransom Center’s exhibit The World at War, 1914–1918 will illuminate the lived experience of the world’s first global war,… read more
Video: Magnum photographer Eli Reed discusses his career and documentary photography
The exhibition Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan is on view at the Ransom Center through December 8. In the above video, Eli Reed, Magum photographer and a clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses his career and working methods. In 2001, Reed traced… read more