construction and opening of the Getty Center

the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium

265 b/w photographs

This volume presents approximately fifty of the ninety-five Weegee prints in the Getty Museum's collection

identifies and translates many of its numerous Latin inscriptions

Gardens in Art iris construction and opening of theLucia Impelluso Gardens in Art analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from important Western museums, subtle lines are used to point out salient details in the paintings for close examination by the reader. In the first five