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Photographer Mary Ellen Mark and Filmmaker Martin Bell Go to Prom

By Melissa Crowley | Published: April 5, 2012
Spread from Prom by Mary Ellen Mark, published by Getty Publications

What will I wear? Who will be my date? Should we rent a limo?  With prom season approaching, these are questions going through American teenagers’ minds. This all-American experience of going to prom marks the end of high school and… More»

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Posted in Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs, Film, and Video

Seven Documentaries Inspired by Photojournalism

By Mara Gladstone | Published: October 25, 2010
Kids + money: Megan, 11, and Ashley, 13, at their Calabasas home. Photograph by Lauren Greenfield/ INSTITUTE

“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… More»

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