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Magnum Photos collection donated to the Ransom Center
George Rodger, Sahara Desert, 1957, verso. With permission of Magnum Photos. The Magnum Photos collection, which contains nearly 200,000 press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum...
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Explore the Ransom Center in a photography-themed open house this weekend
Photo by Pete Smith. Enjoy a day of photography at the Ransom Center’s open house on Saturday, September 28 from noon to 5 p.m. Join us for activities including “jet-setter” tours of the current...
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Registration closes next week for symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age”
Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen, “Russia. Altai Territory. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed space¬craft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies. Environmentalists fear for the region’s...
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In the Galleries: Robert Capa
“France. Normandy. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach.” 1944 © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos Robert Capa (1913–1954), proclaimed “The Greatest War...
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In the Galleries: Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka. “Czechoslovakia. Slovakia. Michalovce.” 1966 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos. Initially drawn to their traditional folk music, Josef Koudelka (b. 1939) photographed the nomadic Romani...
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“Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan” exhibition opens today at the Ransom Center
Photo of Eli Reed by Pete Smith. Eli Reed has worked as a professional photographer with Magnum Photos since 1988 and as a clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin...
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In the Galleries: Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas. “Nicaragua. Matagalpa. Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard.” 1978 © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos. In a stunning break with the black-and-white tradition of war...
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In 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...
View ArticleVideo: Magnum photographer Eli Reed discusses his career and documentary...
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...
View ArticleEditor 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,...
View ArticleFellows Find: The ‘most wonderful’ images in an album of 19th-century photos...
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...
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Explore the Ransom Center in a photography-themed open house this weekend
Photo by Pete Smith. Enjoy a day of photography at the Ransom Center’s open house on Saturday, September 28 from noon to 5 p.m. Join us for activities including “jet-setter” tours of the current...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Registration closes next week for symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age”
Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen, “Russia. Altai Territory. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed space¬craft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies. Environmentalists fear for the region’s...
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In the Galleries: Robert Capa
“France. Normandy. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach.” 1944 © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos Robert Capa (1913–1954), proclaimed “The Greatest War...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In the Galleries: Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka. “Czechoslovakia. Slovakia. Michalovce.” 1966 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos. Initially drawn to their traditional folk music, Josef Koudelka (b. 1939) photographed the nomadic Romani...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan” exhibition opens today at the Ransom Center
Photo of Eli Reed by Pete Smith. Eli Reed has worked as a professional photographer with Magnum Photos since 1988 and as a clinical professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin...
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In the Galleries: Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas. “Nicaragua. Matagalpa. Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard.” 1978 © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos. In a stunning break with the black-and-white tradition of war...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In 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...
View ArticleVideo: Magnum photographer Eli Reed discusses his career and documentary...
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...
View ArticleEditor 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,...
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