January 8, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Women behind the camera in and beyond the studio Margaret Denny received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship to conduct research in the Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection. Below she shares some of her findings at the Ransom Center. During the past decade, I have conducted primary research on Victorian women in photography, an investigation that culminated in my dissertation From… read more
June 26, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyFirst Photograph to travel to Europe for first time in 50 years The First Photograph will be loaned, along with 119 other images and photography-related items from the Harry Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection, to the Reiss Englehorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition “The Birth of Photography-Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection.” The exhibition runs from September 9 through January 6,… read more
February 29, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, PhotographySpecial offer celebrates recognition of "The Gernsheim Collection" Just last week, The Gernsheim Collection, co-published by the Harry Ransom Center and the University of Texas Press, received an Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, which honors a distinguished catalog in the history of art published during the past year. To celebrate this recognition, the Ransom Center is offering editor-signed… read more
