Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Aquisitions
October10,2006 – February 7th, 2007 at the Getty Center

Great show in a beautiful location. Perfect weather this weekend to go to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

“Mary Ellen Mark, Bill Owens, Anthony Hernandez, and Donald Blumberg are midcareer American photographers who share a commitment to observing the people and places that define community. Responding to the genres of portraiture, street photography, and social documentation, each artist works in a serial manner to capture moments that oscillate between the public and the private, between the newsworthy and the everyday.

This exhibition presents recently acquired works, all excerpted from series that the artists made from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.”

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Tiny in Halloween Costume Blowing Bubble, Seattle
© Mary Ellen Mark
American, Seattle, 1983
Gelatin silver print
8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.

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Untitled (Woman with Shopping Bag and Blurred Priest)
© Donald Blumberg
American, New York, 1965 – 1967
Gelatin silver print
6 1/4 x 16 7/16 in.

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Sunday Afternoon We Get It Together. I Cook the Steaks and My Wife Makes the Salad.
©Bill Owens
American, Livermore, CA, 1971
Gelatin silver print
12 x 8 15/16 in.

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Public Transit Areas #12: Los Angeles
©Anthony Hernandez
American, Los Angeles, 1980
Gelatin silver print
12 13/16 x 18 9/16 in.

See you there.

Cheers!
Damon Webster