J. Paul Getty Museum
4) Juanita
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Juanita takes the dove she received for her fourth birthday to the Old Mission Church for the blessing of the animals.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Formats
Description
An alphabet book using twenty-six black-and-white photographs, which range from the mid-1800s to the early 1990s, from the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. Included are photographs by such masters as Walker Evans, Julia Margaret Cameron, Andre Kertesz, Weegee, Dorothea Lange, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Brief historical and background information on each photo included at the end of the book
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands into the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate.
10) Cats
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Reproduces details of scuptures and paintings of cats from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, each with brief, fanciful text.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A comprehensive overview of ancient empires that chronicles the rise and fall of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Athens, the Roman Empire, Alexander and his successors, Qin and Han China, the Parthians and Sasanians, and India from the Mauryan to the Gupta Empires.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.".
"As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs...
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