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Tuesday 27-Jan-2009 - Sunday 14-Jun-2009

Following the announcement of the invention of photography in 1839, portraiture became accessible to all. The 1850s marked the beginning of the medium's commercialization. Continuing technical improvements enabled the instant capture of likenesses under virtually any condition and expanded the dialogue between the photographer and the sitter. While photography was first presented as the most truthful of representations, its underlying subjectivity is especially relevant in portraiture. Drawn exclusively from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, this selection of portraits surveys the relationship between photographer and subject, including formal portraits, intimate pictures, and documentary photographs.

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  Art Categories:

  Fine arts

  Art Medium:

  Photography

  Art Period:

  18th-19th Century (1770-1880)

  Artists Collection:

  Edward Steichen, William Eggleston, William H. Mumler.,

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  Venue Type:

  Museum

  Venue Description:

  The J. Paul Getty Museum aims to reach a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the collection through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.

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  Fine arts

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  http://www.getty.edu/museum

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  Art review: 'Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins' @ LACMA

   

  According to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the last exhibition of paintings by the incomparable American artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) held in this city took place in 1927. Organized on the 10th anniversary of Eakins' death, the traveling show prompted Arthur Millier, The Times' art critic, to lobby for the museum to buy his portrait of a Spanish woman, Signora Gomez d'Arza, arguing that it represented "the kind of selection we badly need if we are ever to have a rea...

   

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  Published 25-Jul-10
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  Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice at the J. Paul Getty Museum

   

  LOS ANGELES, CA.- Italian Renaissance drawings form the core of the Getty Museum's celebrated drawings collection. On view from July 20?October 10, 2010, at the Getty Center, From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice brings together spectacular drawings from the Museum?s extensive holdings to explore influential trends in Italian drawing before 1550. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to examine more than 40 works on paper executed by Italy?s greatest practitioners of...

   

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  Published 20-Jul-10
  Source: www.artdaily.org

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  The strangest roomful of art in L.A. right now

   

  Easily the strangest roomful of art in Los Angeles right now is the final gallery of the Getty Museum's recently opened exhibition of fancy-pants painting and sculpture, "The Spectacular Art of Jean-Leon Gérôme." The first survey in more than 40 years of the once-celebrated, long-derided French academic artist culminates in his transition from established painter to wannabe sculptor."I only came late to sculpture," Gérôme once said, "and it is my great regret."...

   

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  Published 15-Jul-10
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  Why last week's Turner auction made me queasy , Jonathan Jones

   

  The sale of Turner's Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino for £29.7m is no triumph. It's an Antiques Roadshow attitude to art"Turner oil breaks artist record," said the original headline on the BBC Entertainment News page. Images of Turner Prize-winning oil slicks floated before my eyes – but wait, surely Saatchi is giving his treasures away, not selling them, and anyway, I don't think Richard Wilson ever did win the Turner for his lubricious pool of darkness visible, 20:50. But by the time these thoughts...

   

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  Published 12-Jul-10
  Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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  Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography

   

  LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September 14, 2010–January 23, 2011. “Still life photography has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change,” said Paul Martineau, assistant curator, Department of Phot...

   

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  Published 11-Jul-10
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  Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography

   

  LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September 14, 2010?January 23, 2011. ?Still life photography has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change,? said Paul Martineau, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the...

   

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  Published 10-Jul-10
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  J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby's for Record $45.10 Million

   

  LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner's masterpiece painting Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. The auction took place at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday, July 7. One of the greatest paintings by Turner to come on the market, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino has had only two owners in its 171-year history and was most recently on view at the National Gallery of Scotland where it was on long-term loan. It is in excel...

   

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  Published 09-Jul-10
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  J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby's for a Record $45.10 Million

   

  LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner's masterpiece painting Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. The auction took place at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday, July 7. One of the greatest paintings by Turner to come on the market, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino has had only two owners in its 171-year history and was most recently on view at the National Gallery of Scotland where it was on long-term loan. It is in excellent conditio...

   

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  Published 08-Jul-10
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  Getty Buys Turner's 'Rome' for $44.9 Million

   

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  Published 07-Jul-10
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  Getty Buys Turner's 'Rome' for $44.9 Million

   

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  Published 07-Jul-10
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