Initially designating himself an “ignorant American,” photographer Alex Harris went to Cuba in 1998, camera in tow, without preconceived notions. He simply wondered what photography could tell him about this neighboring country that he, along with so many other Americans, knew little about. At first, Harris saw Cuba through his American viewpoint. Due to the [...]
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Tags: Alex Harris, Cuba, documentary photography, Getty Museum collection, Masterpiece of the Week, Question of the Week
“Witnesses in Action,” the documentary film series I curated earlier this month, followed the lenses of brave and talented photographers who took their cameras to far-flung locales. We started in mile-long factories in China, travelled to bizarre beached shipwrecks in Pakistan, hid under the jackets of citizen journalists in Burma, peeked into kids’ closets in [...]
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Tags: documentaries, documentary photography, DVDs, Edward Burtynsky, Engaged Observers, James Nachtwey, Jennifer Baichwal, Lauren Greenfield, Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark, movies, photographs, Sebastião Salgado, Tim Hetherington, W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith
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Photographer Susan Meiselas appears at the Getty Center this Friday evening to talk about her work and screen her 1991 film Pictures from a Revolution. Joining her to discuss the depiction of Latin America is Miguel Tinker Salas, professor of Latin American studies at Pomona College. In 1978, Meiselas went to Nicaragua. She left with [...]
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Tags: documentaries, documentary photography, Engaged Observers, free events, lectures, Nicaragua, photographs, Susan Meiselas
One night when I was 10, I sat down to do some homework, reading a speech in my history book. It was just another day, just another assignment. But as I read this speech, I became confused and angry. Every day at school, I recited the Pledge of Allegiance, which promised that we in the [...]
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Tags: documentary photography, Engaged Observers, history, Leonard Freed, Martin Luther King Jr., photographs
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