Event #3: Getty Center

Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography is an exhibit currently showing at the Getty. It features seven artists' works as they experiment with light exposure and chemical processing in photography. It is a strong contrast from today's digital photography where the photographer can make the photo turn out, essentially, however they want it to. In this exhibit, the artists use an array of techniques to showcase this particular medium in a different light. For example, using expired photo paper or bathing the paper in chemical solutions. I found it to be a refreshing change of pace from the photography I typically see in this day and age - most of which looks too perfect to be real, staged, and edited. There was an understated beauty in its imperfections and soft colors and lines. Overall, it was a beautiful example of utilizing techniques not to to further enhancement or control but to lose control and accept whatever may come from it.

Lisa Oppenheim's "Lunagram", a series of photograms where she took the negatives of a lunar series in 1851 and contrasted it with the same lunar phase in 2010.