The Getty has just acquired photographs by Ed Ruscha. Seventy-four prints, including depictions of gas stations from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City along Route 66, sidewalk views of buildings that were included in his self-published books Some Los Angeles Apartments and Real Estate Opportunities, and shots of the Los Angeles County Museum from the sky, are [...]
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Tags: Edward Ruscha, Getty Museum collection, Getty Research Institute collection, L.A. art, Pacific Standard Time, photographs, PSTinLA, recent acquisitions, Sunset Strip
During my work as a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern at the Getty this summer, I was invited to join colleagues from the Getty Research Institute on a visit to artist Thomas Demand’s studio in Culver City. It was a memorable look at his unique process. Demand is a contemporary artist from Germany who works mainly in [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, Getty scholars, photographs, Scholars Program, Thomas Demand, video art
In 1949, self-taught photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) traveled from Paris to Marseille to see Unité d’habitation, a housing complex by architect Le Corbusier. Awed by the groundbreaking modern design, Hervé took 650 photographs of it in a single day. When he returned, he mailed them to Le Corbusier. “You have the soul of an architect,” [...]
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Tags: abstract art, architectural photographs, art books, books, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier, Lucien Hervé, photographs
Today the Getty Museum announced the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. The acquisition includes photographs of nudes, celebrity portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns. A portrait of Richard Gere as a budding young actor taken by Ritts in 1977 is one of the highlights, but it also [...]
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Tags: celebrities, fashion, Getty Museum collection, Herb Ritts, photographs, recent acquisitions, Richard Gere
Many researchers are looking forward to delving in to the Robert Mapplethorpe archive we acquired in February. However, there is an important complementary collection of equal interest available right now: the Samuel Wagstaff papers. Wagstaff was a formidable curator and collector of photographs, as well as Robert Mapplethorpe’s partner for more than a decade (despite [...]
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Tags: cataloguing, contemporary art, finding aids, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, New York, photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel Wagstaff, Treasures from the Vault
What drew them to Cuba? We asked photographers Alex Harris, Virginia Beahan, and Alexey Titarenko, whose work is featured in the exhibition A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, to talk about what took them to the island, and what they found there. Alex Harris People often ask Alex Harris what he wanted [...]
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Tags: Alex Harris, Alexey Titarenko, contemporary art, Cuba, Getty Museum collection, landscape photography, photographs, Virginia Beahan, Walker Evans
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Begins with an introduction by Karol Wight, senior curator of antiquities. Audience Q&A follows. Running time: 59:04 | Download (MP3 file, 55.4 MB) For centuries, Americans and Europeans saw the lands of the Bible—known variously as Palestine, western Syria, and the Holy Land—through idealized pictures and their own [...]
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Tags: audio, Holy Land, Kathleen Stewart Howe, lectures, photographic processes, photographs
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The mythology of artistic greatness tends to privilege the spark of creative genius over hard work, sacrifice, and experimentation. Traditionally, the biographies of famous artists have described naïve talents who achieved notoriety only after being fortuitously discovered. By contrast, Man Ray’s life story is one of self-determination, ambition, and risk-taking. Born Emmanuel Radnitsky, Man Ray [...]
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Tags: 20th-century art, art books, books, Emmanuel Radnitsky, Man Ray, photographs
What inspires you to pull out your camera and take a photo? We love to see visitors capturing moments at the Getty Villa and the Getty Center to share with family and friends. If you have photos of your visit to the Getty, we’re eager to see them, too! Show us your memories and check [...]
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Tags: Flickr, My Getty Visit, photographs, Thanksgiving, visitors
“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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