Join us on Saturday, July 24th, for a virtual visit to the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles led by Jim Ganz, Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Photographs. Ganz will provide an overview of the Department's history, recent activities and acquisitions, and future projects. Four current photography exhibitions at the Getty Center are: "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA," "In Focus: Protest," "The Expanded Landscape," and "Mario Giacomelli: Figure/Ground." This event has limited attendance. To secure your spot, please complete the following registration form. 

This is the third virtual trip in the SF Camerawork Travel Program Series, which invites guests to visit with curators at institutional and private collections across the country. Stay tuned for more destinations!

ABOUT JIM GANZ

Jim Ganz joined the Department of Photographs in 2018, after ten years as curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European and American photography, with emphasis on early French photography, the history of photography in California, and the relationship between photography, painting, and the graphic arts. He has organized or co-organized more than 40 exhibitions on diverse subjects, including monographic exhibitions on Édouard Baldus, Willard Worden, Peter Stackpole, and Arthur Tress. He served as president of the Print Council of America (2013-2017), and established the collection of photographs at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts. He received his PhD in art history from Yale University.