Virginia Heckert

Bio

Virginia Heckert is the curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the author of Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography (2015), Ed Ruscha and “Some Los Angeles Apartments” (2013), and Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin (2011), and coauthor, with Anne Lacoste, of Irving Penn: Small Trades (2009), all published by Getty.

Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum Curator

Stories

  1. Photography in the Time of Covid

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    A house entryway with wide plank bleached wood floors, white walls, white doors, and two giant fake-looking planted plants that touch the ceiling on either side of the area where the entry opens out.

    Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic started, a rotation of photographs at the Getty Museum reflects on a time when the world shut down, but new ways of seeing emerged

    Jul 1, 2025

  2. Riding through Compton

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    Photographer Melodie McDaniel puts a spotlight on teenage equestrians

    Mar 9, 2022