Andy Warhol was asked by the Polaroid Corporation in 1979 to create a series of works promoting its new product—a giant 800-pound camera that produced instant large-scale color photographs almost three feet tall and two feet wide. Warhol produced ten final images, four of them self-portraits, including the one shown here, which is featured in [...]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Facebook, Images of the Artist, Masterpiece of the Week, photographs, Polaroids, Pop Art, self-portraits
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Much of what the world sees of L.A. is in movies or on TV. But a new exhibition opening today at the Getty Center offers an enticing glimpse of the city’s past through the lenses of photographers—some well known, some nearly unknown. The carefully selected group of images makes you look twice. In Focus: Los [...]
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Tags: Garry Winogrand, In Focus, L.A. art, Pacific Standard Time, photographs, PST, PSTinLA
Man Ray’s black and white portraits are widely celebrated, but two recent acquisitions by the Getty Research Institute shift the focus back on the famous photographer, providing a revealing picture of the often private artist. The first acquisition, a compact but rich archive, contains hundreds of letters, over 50 photographs by Man Ray—some of them [...]
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Tags: aphorisms, artists' books, diaries, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Paris
Many know Lyonel Feininger as an accomplished painter, printmaker, and caricaturist whose work is forever linked to the Bauhaus movement. He was Walter Gropius’s first faculty appointment to the Weimar art school in 1919, and he helped shape an artistic movement that would influence artists for decades to come. Despite Feininger’s fame within the Bauhaus, [...]
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Tags: Andreas Feininger, Bauhaus, German art, Lyonel Feininger, modern art, photographs, T. Lux Feininger
A few months ago, I attended a conversation at the Annenberg Space for Photography on Herb Ritts. Next April, the Getty Museum will present a major exhibition on Ritts, a photographer known for his iconic images of celebrities and models such as Richard Gere, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington. I, [...]
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Tags: AIDS, Day Without Art, Getty Museum collection, Herb Ritts, Ira Sachs, Last Address, loss
On October 25, students from Torres High School in Los Angeles flashed their photographic skills at the Getty Center with guidance by acclaimed photographer Eileen Cowin. The visit was part of Community Photoworks, an annual project offered by the Getty Museum’s education department in collaboration with 826LA and L.A. high schools. The project uses the [...]
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Tags: Community Photoworks, Eileen Cowin, high school students, K-12 programs, Narrative Interventions, photographs, school visits, student artwork
In the 1920s, Lyonel Feininger was one of Germany’s best-known artists. He painted, drew, and made prints; he sketched caricatures and composed music; he even created a miniature city that would presage stop-motion animation. But in 1928, at age 58, he embarked on an entirely new artistic project: photography. The story of Feininger’s fascination with [...]
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Tags: architectural photographs, Bauhaus, German art, Germany, Laura Muir, Lyonel Feininger, modern art, photographs
In the exhibition Narrative Interventions in Photography, opening October 25, contemporary photographers Eileen Cowin, Carrie Mae Weems, and Simryn Gill present works that explore the subjectivity of storytelling and the slipperiness of truth. Cowin’s large, color photographs pair images—including one of a woman pressing a fork against her tongue with one of a mutilated book—which [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, Eileen Cowin, Fiction, lies, Narrative Interventions, photographs, Q&A, Storytelling
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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
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