Photo by student Jesus Martinez
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Echo Park in 1895: Snow-capped peaks in the distance and rolling countryside all around
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Time to Focus: Community Photoworks 2013
Also tagged arts education, K-12 programs, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Time
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs, Film, and Video, Research, Voices
Getty Voices: Be a Photograph Sleuth
Miriam looks through her handy magnifying glass and light to try to determine the photographic process of this image.
I spend as much of my time looking through a magnifying glass as a classic detective does—solving the mysteries of the Getty’s Department of Photographs. More»
Also tagged career paths, careers, cataloguing, Getty Museum collection, photographic processes, Voices
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Posted in Behind the Scenes, Gardens and Architecture, Getty Villa, Photographs, Film, and Video, Voices
The Waltz of the Hummingbirds
Waltzing hummingbirds captured in a fleeting second by accident. Nature’s surprises sure do deliver beautiful photographs. More»
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Gardens and Architecture, Photographs, Film, and Video, Voices
Getty Voices: Getty Gone Wild
Photographic encounters with deer, birds, butterflies, and other wildlife of the Getty.
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Also tagged birds, Earth Day, landscape photography, outdoor sculpture, Voices, wildlife
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David Goldblatt’s Photographs of South Africa Join the Getty Museum’s Collection
Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © David Goldblatt
Candid photographs of racially divided neighborhoods and cities during apartheid join the collection. More»
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Curators Talk Mapplethorpe at the Getty and LACMA
Self-Portrait, negative, 1980; print, 1990, Robert Mapplethorpe. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 14 in. Jointly acquired by The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Partial gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation; partial purchase with funds provided by The J. Paul Getty Trust and The David Geffen Foundation. 2011.9.21. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Last year the Getty and LACMA jointly acquired the art and archives of Robert Mapplethorpe, including more than 2,000 works of art as well extensive documentation of this important artist’s celebrated career and working methods. Now both museums are presenting… More»
Also tagged American art, curators, LACMA, recent acquisitions, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Posted in Art, Exhibitions and Installations, Getty Research Institute
The “Scandalous Life” of César Moro
Peruvian poet César Moro has received relatively little notice in American scholarship. His poetry, artwork, and activities within and without the surrealist movement in Paris, Mexico City, and Lima remain little examined. But the Getty Research Institute exhibition Farewell to… More»
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Digital Display: Student Scavenger Hunt on View
The Getty Museum is full of fabulous furniture, splendid sculpture, and of course, powerful paintings. What if you were asked to hunt for some of the most interesting details and objects in these works of art? Would you be able… More»
Posted in Antiquities, Art, Exhibitions and Installations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs, Film, and Video
From Malibu to Cyprus and Back Again
Having spent a good deal of time with Aphrodite of late, I found in Herb Ritts: L.A. Style a real feast—not just for the eyes, but for the mind. The two exhibitions overlap in their focus on the seductive allure… More»
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Herb Ritts’s Revolutionary Props
Chains. Pedestals. Balloons. Sea creatures. Those are just some of the props that photographer Herb Ritts employed to set a scene, adorn his models, and capture the viewer. The exhibition Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, on view through August 26, contains… More»
Also tagged Djimon Hounsou, Greg Louganis, Herb Ritts, Mark McKenna, props
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