August 20, 2019, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIntroducing The Niépce Heliograph One of the most celebrated objects in the history of photography is featured in a permanent exhibition just inside the main entrance to the Harry Ransom Center. The untitled photograph—the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura—was produced in 1827 by the French scientist and… read more
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
