Carole Lombard, photo by Robert Coburn
for Paramount Pictures, circa 1940.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Unknown date and photographer.
Through the Lens Clearly
Icons and Images from the Harry Ransom Center's Film Collection On view March 27 through April 12, 2008
at the Downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus Store, 1618 Main Street
In conjunction with the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, Through the Lens Clearly features materials from the Ransom Center's extensive film holdings. Exhibition highlights are glamour photographs of iconic Hollywood stars; storyboards and costumes from Gone with the Wind, including Scarlett's curtain dress; Gloria Swanson's annotated script for Sunset Boulevard; and costumes of actor, director, producer Robert De Niro.
This one-of-a-kind exhibition offers visitors a window into the Ransom Center's film collection, which includes the archives of David O. Selznick and Robert De Niro; more than 10,000 scripts for film, television, and radio; 15,000 posters and lobby cards; and over a million photographs including film stills, portrait and publicity photographs, set and location reference stills, and makeup and wardrobe stills.
"We are very pleased to partner with AFI Dallas and Neiman Marcus on this display of remarkable film materials from the Ransom Center," said Thomas F. Staley, Director of the Center. "It's a wonderful opportunity for the Ransom Center to share its collections with a new audience of film lovers."
Left: Thomas Annan
Princes Street, from Kings Street, 1868
(from "Photographs of the Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow")
Carbon print
Right: © Richard McCowan
[Cobblestones at Tower of London], ca. 1998
Carbro print
The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age
The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age will travel to the noted four venues between 2007 and 2010. All images in the exhibition are from the Ransom Center's collections.
Newcomb Art Gallery
Woldenberg Art Center
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
November 28, 2007 - February 24, 2008
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Brunswick, Maine
January 23 - March 22, 2009
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan
November 7, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Dates to be determined
The Image Wrought examines the seeming paradox of contemporary photographers embracing archaic photographic practices in today's digital age. In a departure from other exhibitions of alternative process photography, The Image Wrought provides a singular opportunity to present contemporary images alongside vintage examples of their 19th-century predecessors. These groupings allow viewers to examine how contemporary photographers interpret history. Past and present come together to provide a unique perspective on this important moment in the history of photography.
The Image Wrought explores not only 19th-century processes, but also camera technology and photographs on alternative supports and with surface treatments. A documentary section provides an overview of the alternative process movement from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition was on display in the Ransom Center Galleries from January 31 to July 23, 2006. Additional information about the exhibition can be found online.
