Getty Research Institute, 1543-566. Photo by Jeff Gutterman
What They Saw
Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999
Berenice Abbott » Lola Alvarez Bravo » Emmy Andriesse » Diane Arbus » Eve Arnold » Anna Atkins » Tina Barney » Martine Barrat » Ruth Bernhard » Eva Besnyö » Aenne Biermann » Margaret Bourke-White » Sophie Calle » Elsa Dorfman » Nell Dorr » Paz Errázuriz » Lotte Errell » Angéle Etoundi Essamba » Jill Freedman » Gisèle Freund » Nan Goldin » Henriette Grindat » Hannah Höch » Abigail Heyman » Graciela Iturbide » Barbara Kruger » Germaine Krull » Erica Lennard » Helen Levitt » Mary Ellen Mark » Michiko Matsumoto » Emila Medková » Susan Meiselas » Lee Miller » Lisette Model » Inge Morath » Barbara Morgan » Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe » Yurie Nagashima » Shirin Neshat » Tamiko Nishimura » Ruth Orkin » Marcia Resnick » Leni Riefenstahl » Lorna Simpson » Dayanita Singh » Jo Spence » Monika von Boch » Hedda Walther » Carrie Mae Weems » Marianne Wex » Martha Wilson »
Exhibition: 8 Apr – 11 May 2025
The J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
CA 90049-1679 Los Angeles
+1-323-440-7300
Tue-Sun 10-18
This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks' catalog What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. It is complemented by notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000.