Jim Ganz

Bio

Jim Ganz is a senior curator in the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum.

Senior Curator, Department of Photographs, Getty Museum

Stories

  1. A Seat at the Table

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    A white-bordered color photograph of four people eating under a fringed pool cabana, with three looking at the camera while one holds out a bell.

    In their photograph series Being There, artists Lee Shulman and Omar Victor Diop wanted to give viewers “moments to dream, to question, to project their own stories”

    Oct 14, 2025

  2. How We're Shaping a More Inclusive Photography Collection

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    A woman in a white ensemble with a space-like helmet is floating in the air against a background of clouds, sky, and a peek of trees in the bottom left corner

    The Department of Photographs recently acquired works by Japanese American artists of the 1920s and ’30s, contemporary women photographers, and Southern California artists

    Mar 1, 2022

  3. Highlights from Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs

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    Double exposed black and white photograph of a young woman

    Getty’s senior curator of photographs walks you through a new show of previously unexhibited images

    Dec 17, 2019