“People consider Los Angeles to be this chaotic, sprawling mess. This exhibition reveals that there is a plan, there is an order and a system to L.A. But I think its complexity is what makes it so interesting.” —Chris Alexander, curator What is your L.A.?  On this week’s Getty Voices, curators Chris Alexander and Lyra Kilston are taking to social media and on-site informal “office hours” inside the exhibition at the Getty Center (Tuesday, May 14, 12-1pm; Wednesday, May 15, 12-1pm; and Thursday, May 16, 2-3pm) to hear your stories. L.A. is a complex place that perhaps is best described through a weaving of personal narratives. This week we’re all ears, so please come talk to us in person, on Facebook or on Twitter #OurLA! Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig: view of two women in white dresses, 1960, Julius Shulman. The Getty Research Institute, Julius Shulman Photography Archive.

“People consider Los Angeles to be this chaotic, sprawling mess. This exhibition reveals that there is a plan, there is an order and a system to L.A. But I think its complexity is what makes it so interesting.” —Chris Alexander, curator

What is your L.A.? 

On this week’s Getty Voices, curators Chris Alexander and Lyra Kilston are taking to social media and on-site informal “office hours” inside the exhibition at the Getty Center (Tuesday, May 14, 12-1pm; Wednesday, May 15, 12-1pm; and Thursday, May 16, 2-3pm) to hear your stories. L.A. is a complex place that perhaps is best described through a weaving of personal narratives.

This week we’re all ears, so please come talk to us in person, on Facebook or on Twitter #OurLA!

Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig: view of two women in white dresses, 1960, Julius Shulman. The Getty Research Institute, Julius Shulman Photography Archive.

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LAX, Theme Building; perspective view, 1961. Charles Luckman, William Pereira, Welton Becket, and Paul R. Williams. From the Alan E. Leib Collection. Image courtesy of and © The Luckman Partnership, Inc. | a Salas O’Brien Company Coming in April 2013: Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

LAX, Theme Building; perspective view, 1961. Charles Luckman, William Pereira, Welton Becket, and Paul R. Williams. From the Alan E. Leib Collection. Image courtesy of and © The Luckman Partnership, Inc. | a Salas O’Brien Company

Coming in April 2013: Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

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Composites: Nude, negatives, 1966; prints, 1984, Ray K. Metzker. The J. Paul Getty Museum © Ray K. Metzker “This piece teeters between legibility and abstraction…and as a result presents an exciting moment in the history of photography.” More from curator Arpad Kovacs on Metzker’s composites here.

Composites: Nude, negatives, 1966; prints, 1984, Ray K. Metzker. The J. Paul Getty Museum © Ray K. Metzker

“This piece teeters between legibility and abstraction…and as a result presents an exciting moment in the history of photography.” More from curator Arpad Kovacs on Metzker’s composites here.

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