Posts Categorized "Photography"

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
Tags: Edward Ruscha, Getty Museum collection, Getty Research Institute collection, L.A. art, Pacific Standard Time, photographs, PSTinLA, recent acquisitions, Sunset Strip

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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 [...]

 
Tags: contemporary art, Getty scholars, photographs, Scholars Program, Thomas Demand, video art

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In 1949, self-taught photographer Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) traveled from Paris to Marseille to see Unité d’habitation, a housing complex by architect Le Corbusier. Awed by the groundbreaking modern design, Hervé took 650 photographs of it in a single day. When he returned, he mailed them to Le Corbusier. “You have the soul of an architect,” [...]

 
Tags: abstract art, architectural photographs, art books, books, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier, Lucien Hervé, photographs

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When we think of the Mexican Revolution, many of us probably conjure up images of Pancho Villa or Emiliano Zapata, two of the most well-known figures from the ten-year civil war (1910-1920) that raged across Mexico during the early years of the twentieth century.  The exhibition A Nation Emerges: The Mexican Revolution Revealed, which opened [...]

 
Tags: Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, Los Angeles Public Library, Mexican history, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa

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Today the Getty Museum announced the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. The acquisition includes photographs of nudes, celebrity portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns. A portrait of Richard Gere as a budding young actor taken by Ritts in 1977 is one of the highlights, but it also [...]

 
Tags: celebrities, fashion, Getty Museum collection, Herb Ritts, photographs, recent acquisitions, Richard Gere

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Many researchers are looking forward to delving in to the Robert Mapplethorpe archive we acquired in February. However, there is an important complementary collection of equal interest available right now: the Samuel Wagstaff papers. Wagstaff was a formidable curator and collector of photographs, as well as Robert Mapplethorpe’s partner for more than a decade (despite [...]

 
Tags: cataloguing, contemporary art, finding aids, Getty Research Institute collection, GRI, New York, photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel Wagstaff, Treasures from the Vault

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Initially designating himself an “ignorant American,” photographer Alex Harris went to Cuba in 1998, camera in tow, without preconceived notions. He simply wondered what photography could tell him about this neighboring country that he, along with so many other Americans, knew little about. At first, Harris saw Cuba through his American viewpoint. Due to the [...]

 
Tags: Alex Harris, Cuba, documentary photography, Getty Museum collection, Masterpiece of the Week, Question of the Week

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What drew them to Cuba? We asked photographers Alex Harris, Virginia Beahan, and Alexey Titarenko, whose work is featured in the exhibition A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, to talk about what took them to the island, and what they found there. Alex Harris People often ask Alex Harris what he wanted [...]

 
Tags: Alex Harris, Alexey Titarenko, contemporary art, Cuba, Getty Museum collection, landscape photography, photographs, Virginia Beahan, Walker Evans

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