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The Conservation of Daguerreotypes: Objects in Mirror are More Complex than They Appear

June 1, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

One of many strengths in the Ransom Center’s collections is early photography. In addition to the earliest surviving photograph produced in a camera, The Niépce Heliograph, the Center holds many beautiful examples of daguerreotypes.

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Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Photography Tagged With: Albert Davis collection, archive, Conservation, Daguerreotype, Photography

Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

February 27, 2018 - Jennifer Tisdale

Nieves Orozco

Image: Fritz Henle (American, b. Germany, 1909–1993), [Nieves Orozco], 1943. Gelatin silver print (contact sheet). Fritz Henle Papers and Photography Collection © The Fritz Henle Estate

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the Fritz Henle archive, containing about 180,000 black-and-white negatives, 10,000 color transparencies, 150 contact sheet books, 11 books of magazine clippings and tear sheets and thousands of work prints spanning the photographer’s six-decade career. The materials were donated by the Henle Archive Trust. [Read more…] about Archive of photographer Fritz Henle comes to Texas

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Fritz Henle, Photography, release, University of Texas Press

Now online: Newly digitized E. O. Goldbeck collection

October 11, 2016 - Mary Alice Harper

Attributed to C. A. Stead (American, 1870-1932), QMC Personnel Working on Army Clothing at a Supply Depot, ca. 1919. Digital positive from nitrate negative, 20 x 50.4 cm. E. O. Goldbeck Papers and Photography Collection, 967:0068:0887

A new digitization project provides access to 996 photographs from the E. O. (Eugene Omar) Goldbeck papers and photography collection, the largest photography collection in the Harry Ransom Center’s Texana holdings.

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Filed Under: Cataloging, Digital Collections, Photography Tagged With: Brooks Field, C. A. Stead, C. W. Archer, Camp Travis, digitization, digitized collection, E. O. Goldbeck, Eugene Omar Goldbeck, gelatin silver print, grant, Kelly Field, military, nitrate negative, photographer, Photography, San Antonio, Texana, Texas, twentieth century, W. W. Mitchell, World War One, WWI

Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World / Un hogar en todo el laboratorio

September 23, 2016 - Diana Diaz Canas

Durante la planeación de exhibiciones en el Harry Ransom Center, los curadores seleccionan los materiales que consideran más relevantes en las colecciones y que, a su vez, mejor se relacionan con los temas de cada muestra. Posteriormente los restauradores evalúan la condición física de todos los objetos seleccionados, con el fin de entender su fragilidad material, evaluar los posibles riesgos y/o requerimientos específicos para exhibirlos de forma segura, tales como la necesidad de construir soportes exactos y a la medida para libros, o establecer niveles de iluminación para fotografías. En el caso de Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World, se determinó cuáles fotografías podrían beneficiarse de algunos tratamientos de conservación.

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Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: cleaning, conservación, Conservation, conservation lab, Elliott Erwitt, emulsion, exhibición Elliott Erwitt, exhibition, fotografía, fotografías, Home Around the World, Knopf, laboratorio de conservación, limpieza, photographs, Photography, preservación, preservation, restauración, tratamientos, treatment

Elliott Erwitt: Home around the lab

September 20, 2016 - Diana Diaz Canas

Before treatment - Front with tape residues, and back. Elliott Erwitt (American, b. France 1928), Lawrenceville, New Jersey [Frederick Buechner], 1949. Gelatin silver print, 11.6 x 12.7 cm. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records, Harry Ransom Center. © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos

During exhibition planning at the Harry Ransom Center, conservators assess all objects the curators have chosen for display. Conservators evaluate the condition of [Read more…] about Elliott Erwitt: Home around the lab

Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: cleaning, Conservation, conservation lab, Elliott Erwitt, emulsion, exhibition, Home Around the World, Knopf, photographs, Photography, preservation, treatment

Exhibition presents unprecedented study of renowned photographer Elliott Erwitt’s life and work

June 20, 2016 - Jennifer Tisdale

Elliott Erwitt (American, b. France 1928), Midleton, Ireland, 1970. Gelatin silver print, 30.5 x 20.4 cm. Harry Ransom Center Collection © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos

The Ransom Center presents the exhibition Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World from August 15, 2016, to January 1, 2017. Featuring more than 200 photographs, it is the first exhibition drawn from the extensive Elliott Erwitt Photography Collection, acquired by the Ransom Center in 2015. It is the most comprehensive examination of the internationally renowned photographer’s life and work to date.

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Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography Tagged With: Aperture, Caryl and Israel Englander, Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World, Jessica McDonald, Magnum Photos, Photography, Stephen Enniss

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