September 10, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyNew book “Masterclass: Arnold Newman” is released today In February 2013, the Harry Ransom Center will host the first U.S. showing of the exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass, a posthumous retrospective of photographer Arnold Newman (1918–2006). The exhibition was organized by the American nonprofit organization Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) in collaboration with the Ransom Center. The… read more
June 26, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyFirst Photograph to travel to Europe for first time in 50 years The First Photograph will be loaned, along with 119 other images and photography-related items from the Harry Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection, to the Reiss Englehorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition “The Birth of Photography-Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection.” The exhibition runs from September 9 through January 6,… read more
June 21, 2012, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, PhotographyRansom Center appoints Chief Curator of Photography The Ransom Center has appointed Jessica S. McDonald, a curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as its new chief curator of photography. McDonald begins her position at the Ransom Center in September. As the Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, McDonald will… read more
