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Exhibition What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999

This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library.

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Cover of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 (detail), ed. Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (New York: 10×10 Photobooks, 2021). Courtesy 10×10 Photobooks

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  1. Poetry in the Garden: Camae Ayewa

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    A photo with a soft filter of a woman with long black dreadlocks in a bun on top of her head
    Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 9pm

  2. Resonant Exchange: Meditation with a Tree | Earth Day with Aroussiak Gabrielian

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    Photograph of a hand on the wrinkled trunk of a dark brown tree
    Sat, Apr 26, 2025, 7pm

  3. Poetry in the Garden: Solange Aguilar

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    On the left, a shot of hedges in a pond with the text "Poetry in the Garden" overlaid. On the right, a photo of a person wearing a red flowered dress in front of a tree
    Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 9pm

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  1. Please Touch the Art

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    Explore a hands-on exhibition of books that show us the world through women’s lenses

    Mar 25, 2025

  2. Getty Acquires Archive of Raymond Pettibon

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    Concert poster for the Black Flag at the Starwood. A Jesus figure is nailed to a cross and another man hammers the nails in to Jesus.

    Archive covers the Southern California artist’s early practice in the late 1970s to the present day

    Mar 11, 2025

  3. A History of Loss

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    Getty Scholars approach ideas of extinction in art

    Mar 4, 2025

  4. Honoring the Legacy of Black Craft

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    Quilting books in the Kaplan African American Visual Culture Collection

    Feb 25, 2025

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