Carolyn Peter

Bio

Carolyn Peter is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of “The Many Lives of the Getty's Bayard Album” (Getty Research Journal, February 2022).

Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum

Stories

  1. Reframing 19th-Century Photography

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    Three images in a line: a photo of a woman dancing, a photo of an artwork featuring a wooden face of a man under a glass dome, and a collage of black and white images and letters

    How artists Stéphanie Solinas, Laura Larson, and Stephanie Syjuco talk back to the archives

    Jun 12, 2024

  2. Why Getty Keeps Some Photographs in the Fridge

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    Image of desert road with stop signs and road signs, made up of smaller rectangle-shaped images so the overall image looks like a mosaic

    And more of your biggest questions about photography and Getty’s collection, answered

    Jun 29, 2021

  3. The Tastemakers of 19th-Century England

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    Pencil drawing of woman sleeping on a chair. Her big dress poofs around her

    How three works in Getty’s collection tell the story of a collector and his friends

    Jun 10, 2021

  4. Provenance Research Reaches across Getty in the Digital Age

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    Left: index card for Van Gogh's Iris [sic], $80,000, 4-30-47. Right: Irises

    Explore some of our projects on International Day of Provenance Research

    Apr 8, 2020