The What They Saw Reading Room on view at from 8 April to 11 May 2025 at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. Presenting a selection of sixty photobooks by women from around the world, the reading room includes books from 1843 to 1999.
This pop-up reading room surveys a global history of photobooks by women photographers from the Getty Library. As part of an international series showcasing the 10×10 Photobooks’ catalog What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999, it offers an inclusive revision and remapping of the photobook canon. It is complemented by notable photobooks by Southern California women artists after 2000, including Uta Barth, Kristin Bedford, Lauren Bon, Kaucyila Brooke, Jo Ann Callis, Elena Dorfman, Christina Fernandez, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Judy Fiskin, Jona Frank, Lauren Greenfield, Soo Kim, Mona Kuhn, Diana Markosian, Melodie McDaniel, Catherine Opie, Sheila Pinkel, Alex Prager, Randi Malkin Steinberger, and Deanna Templeton.
Public tours are available on Fridays at 1:30pm and Sunday May 11 at 1:30pm. Learn more
This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.