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Edward King Tenison Irish, 1867 Albumenized salted paper print 84.XP.368.24 The J. Paul Getty Museum
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May 19, 2009 – Oct 18, 2009
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (10am–9pm)
Sundays (10am–5:30pm)
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Directions: Driving: The Getty Center is located near the intersection of the San Diego Freeway (the 405) and the Santa Monica Freeway (the 10). Take the Getty Center Drive exit from the 405 and follow the signs to the main gate on Sepulveda Boulevard.
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The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this semi-independent province was home to Arabs, Berbers, black Africans, Turks, and kulughli (children of Turkish soldiers and Algerian women).
When the French occupied Algiers in 1830, they transformed the city. The land was mapped, its peoples surveyed and classified. The "Arab" city on the hillside, known as the Casbah, was separated from the "French" city that spread out in districts below.
Walls of Algiers examines the city's complex history by considering its places and peoples through diverse 19th- and 20th-century visual sources. The exhibition traces, for example, an itinerary of the Casbah and the European quarters through vintage postcards, and juxtaposes the long tradition of staged Orientalist representations of "indigenous" people with photojournalistic coverage from the Algerian War.
