June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The ‘most wonderful’ images in an album of 19th-century photos of a fishing village in Glasgow Sara Stevenson, a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, worked with the photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson at the Ransom Center last fall. Her research, supported by the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism, will be used in a book she is writing for the… 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
September 24, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography, Research + TeachingTeaching Magnum: What we can learn from Magnum Photos Photojournalist Susan Meiselas broke tradition when she photographed the “people’s revolt” in Nicaragua in color. In 1981, black and white was still the accepted medium in which to depict conflict. Yet, she described the choice as best capturing “the vibrancy and optimism of the resistance.” Learn more about Meiselas’s photograph… read more
