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...

"If...", the children's bestseller from the Getty Museum, is now available in Spanish. Los Angeles artist Sarah Perry has created twenty magical watercolors that are an open invitation to the imaginations of children. Beautifully produced in full col...

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...

The career of the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) spanned more than fifty years. It is his giant photographs of Yosemite, from the "best general view", that most effectively articulate his artistic vision. The J. Paul Getty Muse...

The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left...

William Henry Fox Talbot – a scientist, mathematician, author and artist – is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his inven...

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoc...

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

This book provides practical information on the use of infrared spectroscopy for the analysis of materials found in cultural objects. Designed for scientists and students in the fields of archaeology, art conservation, microscopy, forensics, chemistr...

Attentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the "art of intelligence". The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategie...