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Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time: 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall and Museum galleries
Admission: Course fee $20. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Get Tickets" button below.
Join curator and photography scholar Graham Howe for an exploration of the photographs of Paul Outerbridge, one of America's earliest modern masters and a pioneer in the art of color photography.
The course includes a lecture on Outerbridge, plus tours and discussion of the exhibition Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance, which presents over 100 photographs from all periods of his career.
Participants are also invited to sign up for a free Point-of-View Artist Talk by photographer Reece Vogel at 2:30 p.m. on the day of the course.
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Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958) built his reputation in the early 1920s in New York and Paris, where he made elegant black and white photo abstractions of nudes and still lifes that rivaled those of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Edward Weston. Outerbridge mastered the exquisite tri-carbro-color print process in the 1930s and went on to make groundbreaking color photographs for both advertising and fine art.
Moving to California in 1943 and taking up residence in Laguna Beach, Outerbridge created his last important body of work in California and Mexico. Between 1948 and until his death in 1958, he created a new language for color photographs that anticipated the work of William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and others known for their "New Color" work in the 1970s.
Graham Howe is a curator, writer, and practicing artist, and CEO of Curatorial Assistance, which specializes in the creation and touring of art exhibitions to museums worldwide. Howe was the founding director of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney and has served as curator to the Graham Nash Collection and as a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has published numerous books on Paul Outerbridge, including the 1976 publication Paul Outerbridge Jr. (Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies). Howe recently co-authored Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948–1955 (Nazraeli Press, 2009) to accompany the exhibition of the same name on view through June 28, 2009, at the Los Angeles Central Library.
Point-of-View Artist Talk
Saturday, June 13, 2:30 p.m. | Getty Center
Reece Vogel, photographer and authority on pigment printing, explores the work and practice of Paul Outerbridge. The talk takes place in the exhibition galleries. Free; sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 1:00 p.m.
Lecture: Dancing on the Head of a Pin: Paul Outerbridge and the Art of Commerce
Thursday, July 9, 7:00 p.m. | Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
A pioneer in applying Modernist aesthetic principles to commercial photography, Paul Outerbridge helped close the great divide between art for art's sake and commercial art. Paul Martineau, curator of the exhibition Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance, will provide an overview of Outerbridge's career, exploring his struggle to unite its artistic and commercial aspects during a time of significant change in the world of art and high-end advertising. Free; reservations required.
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