[Leica] Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties - Exhibit at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

[slobodan.dimitrov at gmail.com (slobodan dimitrov)]

There is far more occurring within photography in the Southwest and Southern
California than the Getty knows how to acknowledge. The Getty has never had
a clear commitment in addressing the local photographic culture to this day.
This coming exhibit, and its accompanying catalog, is no exception.


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Robert Browne <rbrowne1 at 
mindspring.com>wrote:

> For those in the LA area during June 29?November 14, 2010 this Getty Museum
> exhibit sounds interesting:
>
> Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties
>
> June 29?November 14, 2010
>
> In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and
> critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Since then
> a host of photographers have combined their skills as reporters and 
> artists,
> developing extended photographic essays that delve deeply into humanistic
> topics and present distinct personal visions of the world. Embracing the
> gray areas between objectivity and subjectivity, information and
> interpretation, journalism and art, they have created powerful visual
> reports that transcend the realm of traditional photojournalism. Engaged
> Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties looks in-depth at
> projects by photographers who have contributed to the development of this
> approach, including Leonard Freed, Lauren Greenfield, Philip Jones
> Griffiths, Mary Ellen Mark, Susan Meiselas, James Nachtwey, Sebasti?o
> Salgado, W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, and Larry Towell.
>
> More museum info at: http://www.getty.edu/
>
> - Robert
>
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