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    Recent Acquisitions in Focus: Latent Narratives

    September 13, 2016–January 29, 2017

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    Untitled from the series The Song Itself Is Already a Skip, 2012, Whitney Hubbs, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased in part with funds provided by Leslie, Judith, and Gabrielle Schreyer. © Whitney Hubbs

    Untitled from the series The Song Itself Is Already a Skip, 2012, Whitney Hubbs, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased in part with funds provided by Leslie, Judith, and Gabrielle Schreyer. © Whitney Hubbs

  • Untitled from the series The Song Itself Is Already a Skip, 2012, Whitney Hubbs, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased in part with funds provided by Leslie, Judith, and Gabrielle Schreyer. © Whitney Hubbs

    Untitled from the series The Song Itself Is Already a Skip, 2012, Whitney Hubbs, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased in part with funds provided by Leslie, Judith, and Gabrielle Schreyer. © Whitney Hubbs

  • Spectral Analysis, negatives 1977, prints about 2008. William Leavitt, chromogenic prints. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © William Leavitt

    Spectral Analysis, negatives 1977, prints about 2008. William Leavitt, chromogenic prints. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © William Leavitt

  • Innuendo, negatives 1995, prints about 2008. William Leavitt, gelatin silver prints. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © William Leavitt

    Innuendo, negatives 1995, prints about 2008. William Leavitt, gelatin silver prints. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © William Leavitt

  • Installation View: Spill, 2009, Liza Ryan, inkjet prints with india ink and graphite. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Hanna Wise Heiting. © Liza Ryan

    Installation View: Spill, 2009, Liza Ryan, inkjet prints with india ink and graphite. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Hanna Wise Heiting. © Liza Ryan

  • Spill (detail), 2009, Liza Ryan, inkjet prints with india ink and graphite. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Hanna Wise Heiting. © Liza Ryan

    Spill (detail), 2009, Liza Ryan, inkjet prints with india ink and graphite. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Hanna Wise Heiting. © Liza Ryan

  • Ether, 2008-2011, Fazal Sheikh, inkjet print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased with funds provided by Joseph Cohen. © Fazal Sheikh

    Ether, 2008-2011, Fazal Sheikh, inkjet print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased with funds provided by Joseph Cohen. © Fazal Sheikh

  • Ether, 2008-2011, Fazal Sheikh, inkjet print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased with funds provided by Joseph Cohen. © Fazal Sheikh

    Ether, 2008-2011, Fazal Sheikh, inkjet print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Purchased with funds provided by Joseph Cohen. © Fazal Sheikh

Recent Acquisitions in Focus: Latent Narratives

September 13, 2016–January 29, 2017, Getty Center

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This exhibition features multipart photographic works by William Leavitt, Liza Ryan, Fazal Sheikh, and Whitney Hubbs. Juxtaposing images of people, places, and things, the works present fragmentary, enigmatic narratives that nonetheless establish a powerful, almost palpable atmosphere or mood. When sequenced by the artist in a specific order, the images recall storyboards used for motion pictures. When excerpted from a larger series, they suggest a stream-of-consciousness meditation on a theme. By providing the visual cues or markers of stories still to be played out, these photographs encourage visitors to participate in completing the narratives.

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TOURS
Point-of-View Talk with Artist Liza Ryan

Join artist Liza Ryan, whose work is featured in the exhibition, and Virginia Heckert, curator of the exhibition, as they discuss Spill (2009), a 30-foot-long band of photographs alternating scenes from nature and images of the human body, linked by a continuous line of spilled india ink. An artist who works primarily in photography and video, Ryan often incorporates references from literature, poetry, and film to introduce additional layers of meaning. Sign-up begins at noon at the Information Desk.

Thursday, October 13, 1:30 p.m.

Curator’s Gallery Tour

Virginia Heckert, curator of photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery tour of the exhibition. Meet under the stairs in the Entrance Hall. Sign-up begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Information Desk. Capacity limited.

Thursdays, September 22 and December 15, 2:30 p.m.

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