August 7, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Puzzling over composite prints by Henry Peach Robinson Emily Talbot, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, received a dissertation fellowship to study nineteenth-century composite photographs by Henry Peach Robinson and his contemporaries in England and France. This research forms part of a larger project that considers the integration of photographic technologies and aesthetic standards into the… read more
June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The ‘most wonderful’ images in an album of 19th-century photos of a fishing village in Glasgow Sara Stevenson, a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, worked with the photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson at the Ransom Center last fall. Her research, supported by the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism, will be used in a book she is writing for the… read more
April 28, 2014, Filed Under: PhotographyFrom the Outside In: Napoleon Sarony’s Portrait of Oscar Wilde, 1882 The atria on the first floor of the Ransom Center are surrounded by windows featuring etched reproductions of images from the collections. The windows offer visitors a hint of the cultural treasures to be discovered inside. From the Outside In is a series that highlights some of these images and… read more
