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How did Pollock apply the pink paint in Mural (1943)?
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Windows Around Us
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Getty Conservation Institute Releases Critical New Resource for Conserving Historic Photographs
An early carbon photograph by Adolphe Brown, Two Girls (detail), date unknown. Private collection
This new digital publication offers science-based tools to identify how photographs were made. More»
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Getty Voices: Preserving the Photographs of the Middle East
© Fouad Debbas Collection
Training a new generation of museum professionals to preserve the rich photographs collections of the Middle East. More»
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Simultaneous Viewing and Ray Metzker’s Composites
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., 2005.27.1966. © Ray K. Metzker
The exhibition The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design in the Center for Photographs charts the five-decade-long career of Philadelphia-based photographer Ray K. Metzker and offers a context for his visual aesthetic through a selection of works by founding members and influential students of Chicago’s Institute of Design. More»
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Together American
The Fourth of July is a holiday of celebration, but also of reflection. During World War II, Dorothea Lange created a series of poignant photographs depicting the internment of Japanese Americans. Uprooted, these families could only take what they could… More»
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High School Students Explore Photojournalism with Sudharak Olwe
Don’t call Sudharak Olwe a teacher. When the photojournalist from India met with a class from Venice High School at the Getty Center to discuss technique and creativity in photography, he turned the gathering from a workshop into a conversation…. More»
