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Dress Code: Drag
In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, you’ll find photographs of 1950s' drag performers striking a pose at grand balls
Take a Paul R. Williams Tour of Palm Springs
You can still visit four of the pioneering architect’s buildings today
Sixty-Five Feet Under
Explore haunting photographs of Paris’s Catacombs
Why I Was Late to the Office
Photo postcards were the social media posts of the early 20th century
Getty Strengthens its Collection with New Acquisitions
Recent additions bolster Getty’s holdings of antiquities, drawings, sculptures, and photographs
When Seashells, Ferns, and Seaweed Went Viral
Why Victorian women like photographer Anna Atkins obsessed over natural collectibles
Latin-American Photographers
From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine Pampas, these photographs capture moments in lives, generations, and professions that cannot be replicated
Fotógrafos latinoamericanos
De las calles de Ciudad de México a las pampas argentinas, estas fotografías detienen en el tiempo lugares, vidas, generaciones y oficios que no se pueden replicar
A Seat at the Table
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”
What Goes on Inside Getty’s Vaults?
How a graduate intern helps save art, archives, and energy