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A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoleon III, and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes. Facing bankruptcy, he fled Paris with Alexandre Dumas to Palermo, traveled to the Middle East, and finally settled in Egypt, where he became drawing master to the ruler's children and continued to make photographs until his death in 1884.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Gray's work had remained largely unknown by the general public until he was rediscovered in the 1960s and was deemed by connoisseurs to be the Monet of photography. 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She was the author of \u003ci\u003eFood and Cooking in 19th Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (English Heritage, 1985) and \u003ci\u003eMedieval Cookery: Recipes and History\u003c\/i\u003e (English Heritage, 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e6 3\/4 x 8 3\/4 inches\u003cbr\u003e53 color and 3 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-60606-109-1\u003cbr\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. 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Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as \u003ci\u003eTwentysix Gasoline Stations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Building on the Sunset Strip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSome Los Angeles Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThirtyfour Parking Lots\u003c\/i\u003e—are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city’s functional architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication features thirty-eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist’s thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruscha’s photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirginia Heckert is curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 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Born shortly before the Meiji era (1868–1912), or period of “enlightened rule,” and educated in both the United States and Japan, Ogawa produced a range of illustrated books for the Western market. His work focused on traditional architecture, scenic views, and subjects associated with Japanese culture, such as national festivals, military tableaux, ritual customs, costumed geisha, and flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn original, deluxe edition of Ogawa’s 1896 book of hand-colored collotype prints, titled \u003ci\u003eSome Japanese Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, is reproduced here in its entirety. These beautiful photographs feature flowers native to Japan, such as the lotus, several varieties of chrysanthemum, lily, and morning glory, as well as garden scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to thirty-eight full-color plates, this small-format, stitch-bound book contains an 1890 portrait of Ogawa as publisher of Japan’s first photography magazine, \u003ci\u003eShashin Shimpo\u003c\/i\u003e (Photographic journal). An accompanying essay traces Ogawa’s distinguished career and describes the collotype process used to produce his exquisite flower images, collected here again for the first time since the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKazumasa Ogawa was a pioneering photographer and printer, and the foremost photography publisher in Japan during the Meiji era. 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Were it not for Cleopatra, for instance, purple might not have become the royal color of the Western world. Without Napoleon, the black graphite pencil might never have found its way into the hands of Cézanne. Without mango-eating cows, the sunsets of Turner might have lost their shimmering glow. And were it not for the pigment cobalt blue, the halls of museums worldwide might still be filled with forged Vermeers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed ocher, green earth, Indian yellow, lead white—no pigment from the artist’s broad and diverse palette escapes Finlay’s shrewd eye in this breathtaking exploration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Finlay is the author of \u003cem\u003eColor: A Natural History of the Palette\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJewels: A Secret History\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Steichen’s modernist approach was forthright and visually arresting. In the 1930s the photographer Martin Munkácsi pioneered a gritty, photojournalistic style. In the 1960s Richard Avedon encouraged his models to express their personalities by smiling and laughing, which had often been discouraged previously. Helmut Newton brought an explosion of sexuality into fashion images and turned the tables on traditional gender stereotypes in the 1970s, and in the 1980s Bruce Weber and Herb Ritts made male sexuality an important part of fashion photography. 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Although most were lost to decay or destruction, three pre-Hispanic Maya codices were known to have survived, when, in the 1960s, a fourth book that differed from the others appeared in Mexico under mysterious circumstances. After fifty years of debate over its authenticity, recent investigations using cutting-edge scientific and art historical analyses determined that Códice Maya de México (formerly known as Grolier Codex) is in fact the oldest surviving book of the Americas, predating all others by at least two hundred years. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a multifaceted introduction to the creation, discovery, interpretation, and scientific authentication of Códice Maya de México. In addition, a full-color facsimile and a page-by-page guide to the iconography make the codex accessible to a wide audience. Additional topics include the uses and importance of sacred books in Mesoamerica, the role of astronomy in ancient Maya societies, and the codex’s continued relevance to contemporary Maya communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from October 18, 2022, to January 15, 2023.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew D. 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And thanks to a foldout insert, we get to peruse the Codex itself, which is as visually inventive as any graphic novel you’ll ever see.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Holland Cotter, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCódice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a welcome synthesis of past and recent studies of this important but controversial pre-Hispanic book. Combining historical, iconographic, and scientific research, as well as the Indigenous perspective on ancient Maya writing and beliefs, the authors convincingly demonstrate the authenticity of the manuscript. An annotated, full-color reproduction of the codex is included.”\u003cbr\u003e—Virginia E. Miller, Associate Professor Emerita of Pre-Columbian and Native American Art, University of Illinois, Chicago\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCódice Maya de México\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003epromises ‘understanding’ in its title and delivers to the highest degree, with all the lucidity and scholarship to be expected from the Getty Research Institute.  After decades of see-sawing disputes—some favoring the authenticity of this document, others not— Andrew Turner and his colleagues have landed at where we should have been at the start, when the book first came to our attention in the 1960s. Arising in a time of cultural interplay, Códice Maya de México shows itself to be the earliest, largely complete tome from Indigenous America. Looking to the heavens, and to Venus in particular, this screenfold (or leporello) indicates how predictable planetary movements were linked in Maya minds to cyclic conflicts between gods. And it does so by muting language and highlighting lists of days unencumbered by more elaborate text. Códice Maya\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethus served as a supple hybrid. Crosscutting societies, it ‘lived’ between different languages and rituals yet still retained its Maya identity. Códice Maya, a special treasure of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, has now fulfilled its own manifest destiny by traveling to Los Angeles, a city founded by the precursor of the Mexican republic and a global example today of the benefits of cultural contact. This study and the welcome visit of the codex to the J. Paul Getty Museum provide unrivaled pleasures to all who care about the power of books and what happens when societies collide, mesh, and—as a direct result—strengthen.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Stephen Houston, editor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.getty.edu\/products\/a-maya-universe-in-stone-978-1606067444\" title=\"A Maya Universe in Stone\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Maya Universe In Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“What a great story: a rare Mesoamerican document, once thought to be a fake and featuring nuanced innovations in the arrangement of its complex astronomical content from a long-regarded archetype, is confirmed half a century later to be the archetype’s historical predecessor. You can't make this stuff up. 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