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Convergences: New Getty exhibit highlights links between disparate works
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Aug 19, 2014
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Convergences: New Getty exhibit highlights links between disparate works
Convergences are those seemingly random, but definable links between people, things and events. These strange connections are also the subject of a new photography exhibit at the Getty Museum.
Sasha and Ruby, 2005, Loretta Lux, cibachrome print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Sasha and Ruby, 2005, Loretta Lux, cibachrome print. The J. Paul Getty Museum. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Heather and Kelsey Dietrick, 7 years old, Kelsey older by 66 minutes, 2002, Mary Ellen Mark, dye diffusion print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © 2003 Mary Ellen Mark
Heather and Kelsey Dietrick, 7 years old, Kelsey older by 66 minutes, 2002, Mary Ellen Mark, dye diffusion print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © 2003 Mary Ellen Mark
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Country Girls, 1925, August Sander, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Country Girls, 1925, August Sander, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Convergences are those seemingly random, but definable links between people, things and events. These strange connections are also the subject of a new photography exhibit at the Getty Museum.

Convergences are those seemingly random, but definable links between people, things and events. These strange connections are also the subject of a new photography exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in West Los Angeles. 

The show groups together contemporary and historical photos from the museum's permanent collection in order to highlight the unlikely — but uncanny — connection between them. 

KPCC's John Horn recently spoke with Getty Curator Virginia Heckert about the Convergences exhibition.