Photographers of Genius

Photographers of Genius at the Getty celebrates the 20th anniversary of the photography collection at the Getty with a showcase of work from groundbreaking photographers who profoundly influenced their contemporaries and succeeding generations of artists. The exhibition includes selected prints by 35 major photographers whose work is held in depth by the Getty, among them William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton Watkins, Eugèene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus. The photographs date from the earliest years of the new medium in Europe to images of America in the 1960s. Many of the individual photographs are icons, widely reproduced in art and photography, while others have exerted a more subtle influence. The exhibition, drawn entirely from one of the Getty's newest but richest collections, shows how art moves continuously forward as photographers of one generation stand on the shoulders of their precursors, advancing pre-existing visual ideas to a new level of expression.



Artists

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Mexican, 1902 - 2002

Diane Arbus
American, 1923 - 1971

Eugène Atget
French, 1857 - 1927

Anna Atkins
English, 1799 - 1871

Hippolyte Bayard
French, 1801 - 1887

Henry P. Bosse
American, 1844 - 1903

Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
French, born Hungary, 1899 - 1984

Julia Margaret Cameron
British, born India, 1815 - 1879

Henri Cartier-Bresson
French, born 1908

Thomas Eakins
American, 1844 - 1916

Walker Evans
American, 1903 - 1975

Roger Fenton
English, 1819 - 1869

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
French, 1804 - 1892

David Octavius Hill
Scottish, 1802 - 1870
Robert Adamson
Scottish, 1821 - 1848

Lewis Hine
American, 1874 - 1940

Gertrude Käsebier
American, 1852 - 1934

André Kertész
American, born Hungary, 1894 - 1985

Dorothea Lange
American, 1895 - 1965

William Langenheim
American, born Germany, 1807 - 1874
Frederick Langenheim
American, born Germany, 1809 - 1879

Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820 - 1884

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky)
American, 1890 - 1976

Lázló Moholy-Nagy
American, born Hungary, 1895 - 1946

Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
French, 1820 - 1910

Timothy O'Sullivan
American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882

Albert Renger-Patzsch
German, 1897 - 1966

Alexander Rodchenko
Russian, 1891 - 1956

August Sander
German, 1876 - 1964

Charles Sheeler
American, 1883 - 1965

Camille Silvy
French, 1834 - 1910

Frederick Sommer
American, born Italy, 1905 - 1999

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864 - 1946

Paul Strand
American, 1890 - 1976

Josef Sudek
Czech, 1896 - 1976

Doris Ulmann
American, 1882 - 1934

Carleton Watkins
American, 1829 - 1916

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
American, born Poland, 1899 - 1968

Edward Weston
American, 1886 - 1958