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Ranging from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to more recent work by photographers such as Frederick Sommer and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of more than one hundred thousand images ranks among the most comprehensive holdings of rare and important photographs in the world. The latest addition to the Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum series -- which includes volumes highlighting the Museum's collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture -- this volume gathers fifty representative selections From the museum's renowned Photographs collection. Each image is described in fascinating detail by the curatorial staff of the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum. Including such classics as Walker Evans's Citizen in Downtown Havana, The Whisper of the Muse by Julia Margaret Cameron, and Georgia O'Keefe: A Portrait, by Alfred Stieglitz, the volume also features images by Carleton Watkins, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray, Lisette Model, and many others. This book is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

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