In 1953 the writer and curator Nancy Newhall assembled, with the cooperation of the photographer Edward Weston, a mock-up for an elegant book featuring Weston's photographs of the nude.

This is a stunning collection of photographs celebrating the remarkable talent of Herb Ritts. "Herb Ritts" traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of both renowned and previously unpublished, photographs.

This third volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master.

Hungarian-born André Kertész (1894-1985) was one of the most influential and popular photographers of the twentieth century.

The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist

Among his well-known photographs of the American West, Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is best remembered for his large-format outdoor photographs, especially those taken in Yosemite.

Doris Ulmann is a contradictory figure in the history of photography. A wealthy New York photographer, she is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South.

This installment in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Edward Weston (1886-1958) helped define twentieth-century American photography. Weston wed machine-age aesthetics with vernacular subjects, pursuing Modernism as a way of seeing.

Eugène Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris.

Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium.

Known as the "greatest pictorialist of her day," Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) came to photography late in life, bringing years of literary and artistic experience to what was still a relatively new medium.

Hungarian-born László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter.

This volume presents Man Ray's early work in New York in the 1910s, selections from his sizable Paris oeuvre in the 20s, 30s, and 50s, and photographs taken during his time in Hollywood in the 40s.

The career of Manuel Alvarez Bravo (b. 1902) spans many decades and reflects numerous changes in artistic fashion.

Paul Strand helped define 20th century American photography. Strand's photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of people and places, and document the experience of life itself.

Stalking the streets of New York City at night alongside police detectives and barflies, the tough-talking, cigar-smoking photographer who called himself "Weegee" was ready at a moment's notice with his Speed Graphic to respond to the police radio.

William Henry Fox Talbot—a scientist, mathematician, author and artist—is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it.