Travel Tip: Art and Archaeology in United States Railroad Vision
Railroad Vision UNITED STATES LOS ANGELES • J. Paul Getty Museum • Ongoing
An exhibition of more than 80 rare photographs from the 1850s onward exploring the side-by-side progress of railroads and photography. The two inventions developed simultaneously in the 1830s. The show features early stereographs, travel books and rare photography of early steam engines, depots, wooden and iron bridges, Civil War train wrecks, and newly laid rail lines in the European and American countryside. Master works on display include photographs by Gustave Le Gray from the 1850s; Hippolyte-Auguste Collard and A. J. Russell from the 1860s; William Henry Jackson and Carlton Watkins from the 1870s; William H. Rau from the 1890s; Charles Sheeler and ALfred Stieglitz from the early 1900s; O. Winston Link and Edmund Teske from the mid 1900s; and William Eggleston and Jim Dow from the late 1900s. Admission is free but parking reservations required.
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