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in 'Nineteenth Century Photography Now'
04.09.2024 - 07.07.2024
Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
17 days ago
The earliest photographs-often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images, may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography's earliest years persist today.
Organized around five themes dating back to the medium's beginnings, this exhibition explores nineteenth-century photographs through the work of twenty-one contemporary artists. Reflecting the inventiveness of early practitioners as well as the more disturbing historical aspects of their era, these interchanges between the first decades of the medium and the most recent invite us to reimagine nineteenth-century photography while exploring its complexities.
