May 10, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies the Sandinista revolution and the Contra War through the lenses of photojournalists Ileana Selejan, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently spent time in the Magnum Photos collection with a dissertation fellowship from the Ransom Center. Selejan’s work focuses on aesthetics in war photography and protest art at the turn of the 1980s, specifically on the Sandinista… read more
March 15, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingErrol Morris book highlights photos from Ransom Center’s collections Writer and filmmaker Errol Morris, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, an Emmy, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival, drew on the Ransom Center’s photography collections for his most recent book, Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, published by Penguin in… read more
March 2, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ Opens in Berlin Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) in collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center, the exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass explores the career of Arnold Newman, one of the finest portrait photographers of the twentieth century. The exhibition opens March 3 in Germany at C|O Berlin, and the… read more
