The J. Paul Getty Museum’s
collection of over one hundred thousand images is among the most comprehensive
holdings of rare and important photographs in the world. It ranges from daguerreotypes
to work by contemporary photographers such as Frederick Sommer and Manuel
Alvarez Bravo. The fifty selections in this Italian-language volume include Walker Evans’s Citizen in Downtown
Havana, The Whisper of the Muse
by Julia Margaret Cameron, and Georgia
O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz, as well as photographs by
Carleton Watkins, André Kertész, Man Ray, Lisette Model, and many others. Each
image is described in detail by the curatorial staff of the Department of
Photographs at the Getty Museum.