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In Focus Edward Weston
ISBN: PB: 9780892368099, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 61 illus.
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works tha...
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In Focus Eugene Etget
ISBN: PB: 9780892366019, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19x15 cm, 50 duotones
Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was his genius recognized. This volume contains 50 Atget...
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In Focus Manuel Alvarez Bravo
ISBN: PB: 9780892366255, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 50 duotones
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2002, is Mexico's most famous photographer. In eight decades as a photographer, he interacted with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisentein, Tino Modotti and Octavio Paz, and created works...
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In Focus Julia Margaret Cameron
ISBN: PB: 9780892363742, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 20x15.2 cm, 50 photos
Known as the "greatest pictorialist of her day", Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) came to photography late in life, bringing years of literary and artistic experience to what was still a relatively new medium. She believed the camera was a tool of...
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In Focus Doris Ulmann
ISBN: PB: 9780892363735, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 57 duotone illus.
Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A prolific creator, she died before...
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In Focus Dorothea Lange
ISBN: PB: 9780892366750, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.7x15.3 cm, 50 duotones
This instalment in the acclaimed "In Focus" series examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the Great Depression of the 1930's The Getty Museum holds nearly one hundred...
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In Focus Hill and Adamson
ISBN: PB: 9780892365401, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.6x15.2 cm, 55 illus.
Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began...
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In Focus Paul Strand
ISBN: PB: 9780892368082, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 55 duotone illus.
Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of...
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In Focus Andre Kertesz
ISBN: PB: 9780892362905, Getty Publications, March 2006
148 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 60 duotone illus.
Kertesz created some of the most acclaimed photographs of the twentieth century, and the J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to own a wide selection of his work. This volume – the first in the Museum's new "In Focus" series, which is devoted to photogr...
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In Focus Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
ISBN: PB: 9780892363247, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 49 duotone illus.
Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in Chicago, where he founded the Institut...
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