Photographs

News and stories about photographs in Getty’s collections and exhibitions

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  1. Daido Moriyama Captured the Soul of Postwar Japan in Gritty, Groundbreaking Photographs

    Book cover featuring a collage of Japanese text and illustrations in green and black colors

    New Getty anthology brings together four iconic early-career photobooks—previously available only in limited Japanese editions

  2. Print Matters Reimagines the Illustrated Magazine as a Modernist Powerhouse

    Book cover featuring a smiling woman in a light blue dress and hat holding a magazine titled "Bingo"

    This new volume explores how illustrated magazines shaped 20th century visual culture through the interplay of photography, text, and design

  3. The Woman Who Captured Nature in Blue: Anna Atkins and the Birth of Photographic Art

    Book cover featuring a drawing of a woman and leaves in blue color

    Using cyanotypes, Anna Atkins turned seaweed and sunlight into the world’s first photographically illustrated book

  4. Dress Code: Drag

    Black and white photograph of dark-skinned person with arms spread wide to reveal luxurious evening wear

    In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, you’ll find photographs of 1950s' drag performers striking a pose at grand balls

  5. Lights, Camera, Fashion

    A person in a stylish suit looks at a book of photographs.

    As a curator of photographs at the Getty Museum, Paul Martineau often explores his passion for fashion photography

  6. Photography in the Time of Covid

    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

  7. New Volume Explores Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles Archive

    Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles book cover

    Containing over 900,000 images, the artist’s archive is emblematic of his oeuvre

  8. And Now for the Female Gaze

    A close up, black and white, and softly lit photo of two girls kissing

    Cynthia MacAdams’s photographs show us what a freer future looks like

  9. Makers' Marks

    A signature painted in the corner of a painting hung with an ornate frame is camouflaged by the subject matter

    Getty curators explore the meaning behind artists’ signatures—those flamboyant, modest, or provocatively hidden final flourishes

  10. Queer Lens: A History of Photography Celebrates Two Centuries of LGBTQ+ History, People, and Culture

    Gay activists embracing at the first Gay Pride Parade in New York.

    Getty doubles the love