December 15, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Photography, Theatre + Performing ArtsAn iconic photographic moment with Spalding Gray Who was Spalding Gray? Fans have debated this question for years, as Gray was a pioneer in blurring the line between real life and theater in his autobiographical and often very personal monologues. He left audiences wondering how much of the stage persona was the real Gray and how much… read more
December 8, 2011, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellow discusses work on wartime photography collections Anne Tucker, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, discusses her research on wartime photography collections found at the Ransom Center. Her work covers collections ranging from Roger Fenton’s documentation of the Crimean War to the World War I photographs of Jimmy Hare to Edward Steichen’s images of the… read more
December 6, 2011, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Implicating History: Susan Meiselas and the Trafficking of Photographs about Nicaragua Erina Duganne, Assistant Professor of Art History at Texas State University, visited the Ransom Center on a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship for a month during the summer of 2011 to review photographs by Susan Meiselas in the Magnum Photos collection. This research relates to her forthcoming book that… read more
