November 6, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyConversation and book signing with photographer Nathan Lyons Jessica S. McDonald, the Ransom Center’s Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, speaks with photographer, curator, and educator Nathan Lyons about his career and role in the expansion of American photography on this Thursday, November 8, at 7 p.m. McDonald edited the anthology Nathan Lyons: Selected Essays,… read more
September 18, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsDisplay highlights basketball photos in "Basketball: Power in Play" Basketball, which began as a game invented to occupy young, energetic boys within the confines of a gymnasium on rainy days, has come to be one of the most popular sports in American culture. Basketball: Power in Play, a display of sports photographs from the Harry Ransom Center’s New York… read more
June 21, 2012, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, PhotographyRansom Center appoints Chief Curator of Photography The Ransom Center has appointed Jessica S. McDonald, a curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as its new chief curator of photography. McDonald begins her position at the Ransom Center in September. As the Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, McDonald will… read more
