The Getty Center
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Los Angeles, California. My mother is into Baroque period art so we went up to the Getty to see a show of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s work. Frankly, baroque doesn’t do it for me but Bernini’s drawings are spectacular and worth seeing if you’re in the area.
The main entrance to the Getty galleries is a wonderful, round rotunda with great light pouring in from all angles and the big Bernini sign hanging in it looked fantastically monolithic.
One of the great things about Richard Meier’s design of The Getty Center is the variety of surfaces and how those surfaces meet. Here the round rotunda connects to a rectilinear walkway in the most beautiful way. There’s hardly a view of any corner of this museum complex that isn’t interesting to the eye.
After dinner the museum was all lit up and ripe for some night shooting.
Richard, I’ve only been the The Getty once, and found it stunning. A great museum, and the museum’s design is very pleasing, a great place to explore inside, and outside. Your photos here are great too.
Thanks Gary, it was fun to shoot architecture again, and what a great place to do it.