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Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Photographs.

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©1999.

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of over one hundred thousand images is among the most comprehensive holdings of rare and important photographs in the world. It ranges from daguerreotypes to work by contemporary photographers such as Frederick Sommer and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. The fifty selections in this volume include Walker Evans's Citizen in Downtown Havana, The Whisper of the Muse by Julia Margaret Cameron, and Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz, as well as photographs by Carleton Watkins, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray, Lisette Model, and many others. Each image is described in detail by the curatorial staff of the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum.

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

J. Paul Getty Museum -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs.

Photography, Artistic -- Catalogs.

Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles -- Catalogs.

Catalogs.

Baldwin, Gordon, 1939-2020.

J. Paul Getty Museum.

"Text prepared by Gordon Baldwin [and others]"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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