December 13, 2011, Filed Under: ArtOccupy Wall Street 1939 AD A bearded and robed figure, whip in hand, chases well-healed bankers and brokers in top hats down Wall Street. Their retreat, a frenzied stampede of cash, coins and streaming ticker tape, is followed by ranks of protestors carrying signs and banners reading, “Democracy,” “Racial Equality,” “Social Security,” and “Right to… 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
