Ransom Center Magazine

Photography

Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

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Image: Fritz Henle (American, b. Germany, 1909–1993), [Nieves Orozco], 1943. Gelatin silver print (contact sheet). Fritz Henle Papers and Photography Collection © The Fritz Henle Estate

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet books, 11 books of magazine clippings and tear sheets and thousands of work prints spanning the photographer’s six-decade career. The materials were donated by the Henle Archive Trust. [Read more…] about Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

Preserving Arnold Newman’s photography slides

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The Ransom Center’s Arnold Newman papers and photography collection, acquired in 2006, includes more than 25,000 prints, original sitting books, early sketchbooks, photographic albums, and video recordings of interviews and lectures. Newman, who lived from 1918 to 2006, was a prolific artist known for his “environmental portraiture,” a style which captures a subject in his or her typical setting. Conservator Diana Diaz treated sets of color slides wrapped in different types of tape. [Read more…] about Preserving Arnold Newman’s photography slides

Orchestrating the Mexican Moment in New York

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By Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins

“In the eighteen years since the wild men of Mexican art first bombshelled the gente culta of the capital with their ideas, behavior, and pictures, their work has become established as the first original and powerful modern art in America. [Read more…] about Orchestrating the Mexican Moment in New York