Getty Exhibition Explores Over 150 Years of Architectural Photography

Where photography meets architecture. That’s what In Focus: Architecture, explores at the J.Paul Getty Museum from Oct. 15 through March 2, 2014, as it  traces the long, interdependent relationship between architecture and photography through a selection of more than 20 works from the Museum’s permanent collection, including recently acquired photographs by Andreas Feininger, Ryuji Miyamoto, and Peter Wegner.

“Architectural photography was an integral part of the early days of the medium, with the construction of many of the world’s most important and magnificent structures documented from start to finish with the camera,” said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “This exhibition demonstrates how architectural photography has grown from straightforward documentary style photographs in its early days to genre-bending works like those of Peter Wegner from 2009.”

The exhibition is curated by Amanda Maddox, assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Architecture in Photographs, with an essay by Gordon Baldwin, has been released on the occasion of the exhibition. A lecture by Dietrich Neumann, Royce Family Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, organized in conjunction with the exhibition, will take place at the Getty Center on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014.

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