Walker Evans’s Havana, through an Architect’s Lens
Julio César Pérez Hernández, architect and author of Inside Cuba, visits the Getty Center this Thursday to talk about Cuban architecture in conjunction with... Read More
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AUDIO: Traveling through Bible Lands: The Dream and the Reality
What did 19th-century visitors to the Holy Land photograph?
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Becoming Man Ray: Art, Life, and Paris
The mythology of artistic greatness tends to privilege the spark of creative genius over hard work, sacrifice, and experimentation. Traditionally, the biographies of famous... Read More
Unpixelated: Luther Gerlach Makes Photographs Like It’s 1851
There are digital photographers. And then there’s Luther Gerlach. In the time it took you to read that last paragraph, you could have snapped... Read More
Pointing East, Thinking West: Felice Beato’s Photographic View
Whether he planted his tripod in India, China, Japan, Korea, or Burma, the Italian-born photographer Felice Beato always portrayed a country’s culture through a... Read More
Making Over Early Photographs with Color
“First, ever so lightly, I take a little flesh-colored pigment and add a bit of color to his face,” said Luther Gerlach as he... Read More
Zhang Huan: Beyond the Body
The body, being, and humanness are Zhang Huan’s primary mediums and subjects.
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Finding the Grace in Trees
The relationship between the individual tree and the scene or the event depicted is what is interesting to see and to understand. Each photo tells a unique story. Trees are sometimes so old, they have seen so much. Trees don’t wait for the photographer to be beautiful or expressive, they just are.
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Brush and Shutter: When Chinese Painters Became Photographers
The new exhibition Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China uses photographs, along with a few paintings and other artistic media, to tell a... Read More
Reframing Robert Mapplethorpe
Frances Terpak, curator of photographs, talks about the new Robert Mapplethorpe Archive.
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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... Read More
Seven Documentaries Inspired by Photojournalism
“Witnesses in Action,” the documentary film series I curated earlier this month, followed the lenses of brave and talented photographers who took their cameras... Read More