January 16, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography, Research + TeachingWar photography exhibition showcases images from the Ransom Center’s photography collection Back in November the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath opened at its fourth and final venue, the Brooklyn Museum. This exhibition, which I curated with Anne Tucker and Will Michels in my former role in the photography department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featured… read more
December 19, 2013, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Jimmy Hare photography collection reveals early photojournalism history John Mraz is a research professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego” of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. He received a fellowship from the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment to study “Jimmy Hare’s… read more
November 21, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyEditor of “Reading Magnum” explores Magnum Photos collection Steven Hoelscher, editor of Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, will discuss the book at The Contemporary Austin tonight in an event hosted by Austin Center for Photography, University of Texas Press, and The Contemporary. The arrival in December 2009 of some 200,000 press prints from… read more
