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
November 14, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyVideo: Magnum photographer Eli Reed discusses his career and documentary photography The exhibition Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan is on view at the Ransom Center through December 8. In the above video, Eli Reed, Magum photographer and a clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses his career and working methods. In 2001, Reed traced… read more
October 29, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyIn the Galleries: Jonas Bendiksen’s contact sheets In 2012, Magnum introduced the sale of carefully reproduced contact sheets, offering “the opportunity to own a piece of Magnum’s history.” Indeed the digital turn in photography has forced the contact sheet, once an inextricable part of the photographic process, into obsolescence. Contact sheets, made when negatives are printed directly… read more
