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Curator's Gallery Talks

Anne Lyden, Associate Curator of Photographs, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 2:30 p.m.

Getty Center, meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.

Lecture

Storytelling and Photography
Noted playwright and actress Anna Deveare Smith joins artists Eileen Cowin and Carrie Mae Weems to discuss their works on view in the exhibition Narrative Interventions in Photography and explore how storytelling impacts their art making.

Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium

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God Bless the Child, Carrie Mae Weems from the series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995–96. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon. © Carrie Mae Weems

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Carrie Mae Weems, Eileen Cowin, and Simryn Gill describe how, through photography and text, they explore narratives of history and culture. Pick up an iPod touch™ in the Museum Entrance Hall.