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The Gernsheim Collection
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“The Gernsheim Collection” Earns Recognition
Feb. 14, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas — "The Gernsheim Collection," co-published by the Harry Ransom Center and the University of Texas Press, has been awarded an Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, which honors a distinguished catalog in the history of art published during the past year.

Edited by Ransom Center Senior Research Curator Roy Flukinger, "The Gernsheim Collection" coincided with the Ransom Center's 2010 exhibition "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection," which explored the history of photography through the Center's foundational photography collection.

"The Barr Award is a great honor for the university, as well as for the Ransom Center," said Flukinger. "The Ransom Center has a longstanding commitment to scholarship and learning, and it is rewarding to have this recognition by the College Art Association."

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The Gernsheim Collection
by Roy Flukinger
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Gernsheim Collection wins Award
by Michael Wong on May 6, 2011

The Gernsheim Collection, published by the University of Texas Press, written by Roy Flukinger and designed by Pentagram, won the Fred Whitehead Award for Best Book Design at the Texas Institute of Letters 75th anniversary awards ceremony last Saturday.

The Gernsheim Collection housed at the Harry Ransom Center on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, is one of the most important photography collections in the world. Amassed by the renowned husband-and-wife team of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim between 1945 and 1963, it contains an unparalleled range of images, including the world’s earliest-known photograph, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. Its encyclopedic scope—as well as the expertise and taste with which the Gernsheims built the collection—makes the Gernsheim Collection one of the world’s premier resources for the study and appreciation of the development of photography.

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