photography

Archive of Venezuelan Intellectual and Photographer Alfredo Boulton Comes to the Getty Research Institute

The archive contains 4,000 prints, and 20,000 negatives

Amy Hood | October 1, 2020

A curator muses about the alchemy of early photography and its relationship to her home garden.

The J. Paul Getty Museum recently acquired a collection of nearly lost photographs assembled by collector Dennis Reed over the course of 35 years

Lyra Kilston | August 18, 2020

Recently digitized images show collaboration and joy in the making of the 1970’s feminist sculpture

Erin Fussell | July 22, 2020

How a tattoo helped identify a boxer and catalogue a collection

Photographer Julius Shulman and the 1970s domestic interior

A new Getty photograph acquisition reveals early digital art by Tadao Takano.

Hear a curator discuss the unexpected poignancy of laundry drying.

How artists have been inspired by a glimpse outside.

Erin Migdol | April 30, 2020

All you need is a smartphone and some time to learn the basics.

Val Tate | April 15, 2020

With time on our minds, we explore how artists have approached the subject for thousands of years

Alexandria Sivak | April 10, 2020

Why are photographers drawn to crime scenes?

Alexandria Sivak | February 20, 2020