Hungarian-born AndrA(c) KertA(c)sz (1894-1985) was one of the most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time selections from the Getty Museum's holdings of KertA(c)sz's photographs, including work from his Budapest, Paris, and New York periods. The book also offers an intimate look at KertA(c)sz through a dialogue among four of the people who knew the artist best during the last years of his life: Robert Gurbo, Curator of New York's AndrA(c) and Elizabeth KertA(c)sz Foundation; David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art...

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 Institute of Design. He pioneered the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the photogram. This book, the second in the Getty's In Focus series, features sixty reproductions from the Getty's outstanding collection of this important photographer's work--each described by Katherine Ware of the Museum's department of photographs. The book also...

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 many of her last images could be printed. The latest addition to the acclaimed In Focus series present fifty-five pictures by Ulmann from the Museum's collection. Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs, wrote the extensive accompanying captions and participated, along with William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef,...

This volume is devoted to the smaller and more unusually-shaped works of Carleton E. Watkins, many of which have not been published before. The book also contains an overview of his life, and an edited transcript of a colloquium on his career.

This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a commentary. Also included is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Man's career.

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 works with comprehensive captions and an edited colloquium on his life and work by seven scholars.

The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion. A self-taught photographer, he purchased his first camera at the age of twenty, and around 1925 he won first prize in a photographic competition in Oaxaca. He returned to his birthplace of Mexico City and in 1927 met Tina Modotti, who introduced him to many Modernists in the city's lively art scene. Among them was Edward Weston, who encouraged Alvarez Bravo to continue his photography. Though his work went unrecognized in mainstream art circles for years, Alvarez Bravo is now...

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 invention of the photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerreotype process debuted in France. Talbot's improved process, the calotype, was introduced in 1840. This invention, which shortened exposure times and facilitated making multiple prints from a single negative, became the basis for photography as it is practised...

Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the police radio. From the mid-1930s to 1950s he captured hundreds of pictures of accidents, murders, arrests, fires, and natural disasters, producing works that are both empathetic and sensational. This volume in the "In Focus" series presents approximately fifty of the ninety-five "Weegee" prints in the Getty's collection, surveying the...