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Section of the Vienna Codex by an anonymous Mixtec artist. Hand-colored etching and aquatint after original maunscript in Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères, et monuments des peoples ...

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles’ most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. He created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning a sixty-year-long ...

Edward and Henry T. Anthony were brothers as well as photographic partners. Edward, born in 1818, was a civil engineer until the daguerreotype debuted in the United States. Immediately stricken with ...

Alessandra Sprega, Benjamin Marcus, Elena Macchioni, Claudia Cancino, 2025 Download PDF Download EPUB Print on Demand (Lulu.com) The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has demonstrated a commitment to ...

Photography and fashion insiders-from photographer Glen Luchford to supermodel Cindy Crawford-share stories and insights about select works.

Metadata provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. The volume of digital information available over electronic networks has created a pressing need for ...

At the Mogao grottoes, a World Heritage Site near Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, generations of Buddhist monks created hundreds of rock temples. Nearly five hundred of these grottoes remain, lined with ...

In each of these passages referring to the use of amber—the ornamentation of a seemingly Olympian palace, necklaces intended for elite women, and the shield of a hero—amber is inextricably bound up ...

The Museum’s photographs collection celebrates its 35th anniversary with an exhibition showcasing photographs never before displayed at the Getty. From 19th-century European and American photographs ...

The contemporary photographers in this exhibition create large-scale works that expand our understanding of what landscape photography can be. Like Mario Giacomelli, whose work is on view in the ...

Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BC decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both for their artistic quality and ...