June 24, 2010, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingMagnum Photos collection opens to researchers, students, and public The Magnum Photos collection, comprising more than 1,300 boxes of photographic materials, is now open to researchers, students and the public at the Ransom Center. Dating from the 1930s to 2004, the bulk of the nearly 200,000 photographs from Magnum Photos’ New York bureau are gelatin silver prints, though the… read more
June 22, 2010, Filed Under: PhotographyCollection showcases hand-colored tintypes in period frames The Stanley Burns tintype collection is a remarkable and rare assemblage of unusually large, hand-colored, American tintypes in period frames. With more than 130 items, this is one of the largest collections of its kind. Portraiture in America has a long tradition. In the colonial era, painted portraits provided a… read more
May 27, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographyThe first photograph gets a check-up In 1952, photohistorian Helmut Gernsheim rediscovered the first photograph lying forgotten in a trunk, 125 years after Joseph Nicéphore Niépce captured the famous image. “I held the foundation stone of photography in my hand,” Gernsheim recalled. “I felt myself in communication with Niépce. ‘Your nightmare existence in a trunk is… read more
