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
November 30, 2011, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingScreenwriter Paul Schrader’s papers open for research In the late 1970s, screenwriter Paul Schrader began writing a script titled Born in the U.S.A., and he asked Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the film. The script sat on Springsteen’s table until one day, while working on a song called “Vietnam,” he noticed Schrader’s script, sang the… read more
November 29, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Ogden Nash’s padlocked collection of poetry “All of these books are worse than opium… I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books,” declared Senator Reed Smoot of Utah in March 1930, speaking from behind a desk towering with “smutty” books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Robert Burns’s poetry. In 1929,… read more
