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Christine Robinson Joins the Ransom Center as Curator of Photography

Christine Robinson has joined the Ransom Center as its new Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography. Robinson previously taught in the Photography and History of Art and…

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Blanc et Demilly: Modernists from Lyon

Born a year after his photographic partner, in 1892, Antoine Demilly met Theodore Blanc after they each married daughters of Edouard Bron, who ran a studio in Lyon from 1893.

Demilly…

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Cindy Sherman's Film Stills: An Evaluation Nearly 30 Years Later

"She's good enough to be a real actress."

--Andy Warhol, n.d.

"Cindy Sherman's Film Stills are the best of my generation."

--Richard Prince, May 5, 2007 email

Almost 30 years after its completion, Cindy…

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