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As a Marine photographer, a photojournalist for LIFE magazine and a freelancer, Duncan has created images of the world’s great events and people that have been etched into popular consciousness. |
AUSTIN, Texas—World-famous photojournalist David Douglas Duncan will inaugurate the lecture series named in his honor by speaking about his experiences and exploits in the world of photography at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in the Bass Lecture Hall of the LBJ Library and Museum on The University of Texas at Austin campus. A receptiion will follow the lecture, and the event is free and open to the public.
Duncan’s career includes more than a decade as a pioneer staff photographer for LIFE Magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, and his involvement in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam has established him as the preeminent photographic chronicler of those conflicts.
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From the Duncan archive in the Ransom Center, Soldier in Trench at Con Thien, Vietnam, 1967. |
Duncan began donating portions of his archive to the Photography Collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the university in 1996, with the capstone of the archive arriving at the Ransom Center last September. This most recent gift contains original negatives, prints and color transparencies from many of his most significant bodies of work, including Duncan’s entire record of his 18-year friendship with Pablo Picasso, and his exclusive documentation from the 1950s of the treasures of the Kremlin. The Duncan archive is one of the most complete and thorough of any modern American photojournalist and joins a number of others in the Photography and Film Collection of the center.
RANSOM CENTER
One of the world’s finest cultural archives, the Ransom Center houses 30 million literary manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million photographs and more than 100,000 works of art. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1450), the world’s first photograph (c. 1826), important paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and major manuscript collections of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Tennessee Williams to name but a few. The center is used extensively for research by scholars from around the world and presents numerous exhibitions and events each year showcasing its collections. Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
For further information, contact Sheree Scarborough (512) 471-8944 or (512) 232-3670.
