Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 in Events
Cuba, Milton Rogovin, 1989. © Milton Rogovin. Banner image: Cotton-Mill Worker, North Carolina (detail), Lewis Wickes Hine, 1908
In Focus: The Worker
November 3, 2009–March 21, 2010
The Getty Center
See a visual history of workers across nearly 150 years, from surgeons at the operating table in 1847 to oil-soaked firefighters battling the burning oil fields of Kuwait in 1991. More than 40 photographs capture workers from a variety of cultures and trades—Hopi weaver, Civil War gravedigger, Japanese rice farmer, Parisian streetwalker, and more.
This is the latest installment of the In Focus series, which offers a thematic look at the Museum’s photographs collection.
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Opening in November
Five more exhibitions open this month at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa—including Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, which features extraordinary books on the history of science and ideas; The Medieval Scriptorium, which invites kids to explore what it was like to be a scribe in the Middle Ages; and Collector’s Choice: J. Paul Getty and His Antiquities, which illuminates J. Paul Getty’s collecting practice through seldom-seen works of art and personal memorabilia.
Closing in November
Don’t miss the final days of Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts and Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes.
