July 9, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the galleries: Alvin Langdon Coburn’s "Vortograph" and Barry Stone’s "Sky 3099" Although almost a century separates Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortograph (1917) and Barry Stone’s Sky 3099 (2012), Stone still finds parallels between the works. It is this connection between old and new that informs the Ransom Center’s current exhibition, Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive. Created in conjunction with the Lakes… read more
June 25, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyRegistration opens for photography symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age” The Harry Ransom Center presents the symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age.” Scheduled for October 25–27, the symposium will be held in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s upcoming fall exhibition Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age. The symposium brings together photographers, curators, and historians to discuss the… read more
June 11, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyNow open: “Literature and Sport” and “Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive” Two new exhibitions, Literature and Sport and Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive open today at the Ransom Center. Sport holds a sacred place in Western culture and literature. Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, Marianne Moore, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace… read more
