photography

The Photographs That Helped Save a National Icon

Carleton Watkins’s powerful images helped convince Congress to save Yosemite.

Jia-Rui Cook | June 15, 2014

Photography turned 175 this year. Audio and recaps from the special celebratory symposium.

Willard Huyck | June 5, 2014

A foil to Julius Shulman’s B&W glamour, Maynard Parker captured middle-class modernism.

Jia-Rui Cook | May 31, 2014

The royal children enact the seasons in a rare album now on display at the Getty Museum.

Lisa Heighway | May 28, 2014

Photographs of Italian monuments and European tapestries join the Open Content Program.

Tracey Schuster | April 22, 2014

Why is contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto taking pictures of 175-year-old prints?

Annelisa Stephan | April 14, 2014

An artist creates an urban opera set inside a bus, with joyful movement as the plot.

Ann Kaneko | April 8, 2014

Sixty-six photographs by Arthur Tress join the collection.

Alexandria Sivak | March 27, 2014

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto plays with dioramas’ tension between real and fake, fact and spectacle.

Alexandria Sivak | March 24, 2014

The photographer was nothing like this young artist imagined.

Claire Peeps | March 23, 2014

Six albums by French explorer Edouard Foà reveal African society at the turn of the 20th century.

Arresting portraits that evoke Africa's colonial past.

Isotta Poggi | February 17, 2014