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Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students

March 29, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center has awarded over a dozen fellowships for 2021-2022 to The University of Texas at Austin faculty and graduate students through the Center’s new UT-Austin Fellowship program. The new fellows reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Center’s collections and represent a wide range of departments, programs, and schools across the university. [Read more…] about Fellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students

Filed Under: archive, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, literature, Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: 2021-2022 Fellows, fellows, Fellowships, Religion

Portfolio of photographs acquired from Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black

February 22, 2021 - Jessica S. McDonald

In 2017, renowned portraitist Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) reflected on his four-decade career by stating simply, “my work has largely been based on representation of the human subject.” He explained that he has used photography to depict “subjects such as the black subject, or young people, who are not always—within the larger social conversation—thought of as having a rich interior life.” In addition to these poetic portraits of ordinary people, Bey has recently begun confronting central events in African American history, asking, “what kind of work can one make about something that happened decades ago?”    [Read more…] about Portfolio of photographs acquired from Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: African American Creators, Dawoud Bey

Highlights from an unprecedented year

December 31, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

It was not the year we anticipated, hoped for, or a year we would want to repeat. The first rumblings of the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, escalated in February, and eventually erupted in our community in March when the Center closed its doors to in-person visits and staff began working remotely. What happened next was a natural shift to expanding the Center’s online presence throughout the year. [Read more…] about Highlights from an unprecedented year

Filed Under: archive, Art, Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Conservation, Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, literature, Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Year-in-Review

The camera as a weapon against racial injustice: Eli Reed’s Black In America

December 17, 2020 - Steven Hoelscher

During the hot summer months of 2020, especially in the weeks following the May 25th killing of George Floyd while in police custody, the Magnum Photos, Inc. Photography Collection was often on my mind. The scenes of protest that we witnessed, in countless cities across the United States and the world, reminded me of the iconic Civil Rights Movement images that Magnum’s photographers created. Burt Glinn in 1957 Little Rock, Eve Arnold at the 1961 Black Muslim rally, Danny Lyon at 1963 SNCC sit-ins, Leonard Freed at the 1963 March on Washington, Bruce Davidson at the 1965 Selma march: These images, and many more, documented the epic Black struggle to achieve greater social justice, a struggle that so obviously continues. [Read more…] about The camera as a weapon against racial injustice: Eli Reed’s Black In America

Filed Under: archive, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: Eli Reed, Magnum Photos

ABOUT STEVEN HOELSCHER

Hoelscher is professor of American Studies and Geography at The University of Texas at Austin and faculty curator at the Harry Ransom Center.

What makes a good picture?

July 10, 2020 - Kim Beil

Trends in photography are most noticeable when they’ve recently passed out of favor. Overhead shots of lattes or potted succulents may seem like good pictures, until suddenly they’re the only things you see on Instagram. Although trend turnover is accelerated by social media, popular photographic styles have followed the same general lifecycle since the 1840s. First, a new style is pioneered and picked up by early adopters. Soon it saturates the visual landscape and everyone’s doing it (remember duck face?). Critics step in to decry the overuse of the trend. Its popularity wanes, only to be replaced by another new style: the next good pictures. [Read more…] about What makes a good picture?

Filed Under: Featured1, Photography, Research + Teaching

The Conservation of Daguerreotypes: Objects in Mirror are More Complex than They Appear

June 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

One of many strengths in the Ransom Center’s collections is early photography. In addition to the earliest surviving photograph produced in a camera, The Niépce Heliograph, the Center holds many beautiful examples of daguerreotypes.

[Read more…] about The Conservation of Daguerreotypes: Objects in Mirror are More Complex than They Appear

Filed Under: archive, Conservation, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: Albert Davis collection, Conservation, Daguerreotype, Photography

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