The world's first photograph wasn't taken in Austin. And the legendary photographic cooperative Magnum Photos has never been headquartered here. But that hasn't stopped the city from developing ...

Official image of the "first photograph" -- Joseph Nicephore Niepce's View from the Window at Le Gras, circa 1826 -- in 2003, without manual retouching. Courtesy of Harry Ransom Center hide caption ...

The famous, historically significant Magnum Photos collection, valued at $200 million, has been donated to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas, university officials announced Friday night ...

The First Photo Ever Taken: “View From The Window At Le Gras” In 1826 or 1827, Niépce succeeded in producing the first photograph ever taken. As the Harry Ransom Center reports, he ...

Jessica S. McDonald, the Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, rethinks the historical moment, as well as the personal circumstance, shaping Helmut and Alison Gernsheim ...

Leading the Ransom Center is a dream job for the 56-year-old Enniss. “In hindsight it may look like I was intent on it from the beginning of my career, but in reality it was a surprise when I ...

The exhibition is expected to be on view from Sept. 20, 2025, through March 15, 2026. More about the Harry Ransom Center. Founded in 1957, the Harry Ransom Center is internationally recognized as ...

Fellowships are awarded for projects spanning the center’s collections in literature, performing arts, film, photography, and art. The Ransom Center will award 50 research fellowships for its ...

Come for the rarest of rarities on permanent exhibit – the Gutenberg Bible (one of six complete copies in the U.S., printed ca. 1450-55) and the first (known) photo ever, shot by French ...

The Harry Ransom Center is a library and archive at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe. The ...

Film & TV How Texas Became the Keeper of SNL’s Fifty-Year History Lorne Michaels chose Austin’s Harry Ransom Center as the permanent home of his vast collection of Saturday Night Live artifacts.