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Saturday Jul 10th, 2010

L. Nowlin Gallery presents “The Portrait”, a group exhibition exploring unique and inspiring interpretations of the portrait, while combining the talents of new and established photographers.

 

Exhibition Date: July 6th - August 14th, 2010

Opening Reception: July 10th
Sunday Jul 11th, 2010 7:00 PM

Come to the Austin Photography Group meeting for the month of July!

Meeting Topic: TBA

Of course, there will be time for individual discussion and showing prints at the meeting, so please bring a few prints to share that you particularly enjoy.

As always, attendance is free, so come and meet with other fellow camera-enthusiasts for a way to share photographs and information, and to organize efforts toward Austin becoming a central hub for photographic activity!

We meet on the third floor of Book People Bookstore at 7:00 pm on every second Sunday of the month.

Location
Book People Bookstore

603 N Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050 

 

For more information and to RSVP, visit:

http://www.meetup.com/photo-438/calendar/12930923/?from=list&offset=0
Saturday Jul 17th, 2010

News Release — June 17, 2010

Magnum Photos Collection Opens
to Researchers, Students and Public

AUSTIN, Texas—The Magnum Photos Collection, comprising more than 1,300 boxes of photographic materials, is now open to researchers, students and the public at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dating from the 1930s to 2004, the bulk of the 210,000 photographs from Magnum Photos' New York bureau are gelatin silver prints, though the collection also contains some color prints.

An inventory of the collection can be found online.

In February, MSD Capital L.P., Magnum Photos and the Ransom Center announced that the collection would reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which had recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos.

The collection of images, taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, cataloged and made accessible by the Ransom Center.

"Among the many great strengths of this collection is its scope and diversity," said Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley. "Magnum photographers have artfully chronicled some of the century's most critical moments and figures, from social unrest to war from political leaders to celebrities, and their work has often given voice to those traditionally omitted from news reporting."

The works of more than 100 Magnum photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Meiselas and Elliott Erwitt, are included in the collection.

While the Ransom Center preserved the original physical order of the collection, it created a preliminary inventory that intellectually groups similar types of materials together to aid search, retrieval and access. These broad groups include photographers, personalities, subjects, geography, and portraits and snapshots of Magnum photographers, staff, contributors and meetings.

"Upon receipt of the collection, one of the Ransom Center's top priorities was to provide access as soon as possible to the materials," said David Coleman, curator of photography at the Ransom Center. "While this preliminary inventory enables that access, our future goal is to provide more detailed information, to list personalities individually and include subcategories for the series relating to subjects and geographical locations."

The collection is accessible in the Ransom Center's reading room on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In addition to making materials accessible, the Ransom Center annually awards fellowships that support scholarly research projects in its collections. Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of substantial on-site use of the Center's collections. Information about the fellowships is available atwww.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships.

The collection resides at the Ransom Center courtesy of MSD Capital, Michael and Susan Dell, Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, and John and Amy Phelan.

High-resolution press images are available.


This article was found on the HRC website at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2010/magnum.html

 
Tuesday Sep 7th, 2010

Discovering the Language of Photography: 

The Gernsheim Collection

September 7th, 2010 - January 12, 2011

This exhibition is made up of two complementary and interweaving narratives—the history of photography as told through the collection's imagery, and the history of the collection's formation and methodology. The Gernsheims assembled a peerless collection, most predominantly in the area of nineteenth-century British photography, and many highlights will be on display alongside works by unknown or lesser-known artists who used various means to improve or to exploit the relatively new invention of photography. The exhibition will highlight key moments in the history of photography, important technological and ideological shifts in the act of picture making, and narratives that served the Gernsheims as key points of collecting.
Thursday Sep 23rd, 2010 7:00 PM

Thursday, September 23, 7pm - An Evening with Laura Letinsky

The Icons of Photography No.7 lecture series brings Laura Letinsky to Austin.

Laura Letinsky is a professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts. She was born in Winnipeg, Canada. She received an BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1986. Her MFA came from Yale University School of Art in 1991.

Laura's work has been exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Casino Luxembourg; Galerie m Bochum, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nederlands Foto Institute; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago; J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Grants include the Richard Driehaus Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and Canada and Manitoba Arts Council.

Her publications include After All, Damiani Publishers (2010), Now, Again, Galerie Kusseneers (2005), Hardly More Than Ever, The Renaissance Society (2004), Blink, Phaidon Pres s (2002), and Venus Inferred, University of Chicago Press (2000). Laura is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

  • Date: Thursday, September 23
  • Time: 7pm
  • Where: Blanton Museum Auditorium - University of Texas - Austin, Texas
  • $5 student/senior/military in advance - $10 at the door
  • $10 general admission in advance - $15 at the door
  • ACP Members FREE

 
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