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About The Getty Research Institute (GRI)

The Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts. Its Research Library contains more than one million volumes of books, periodicals, and auction catalogs, and features a Photo Study Collection comprised of approximately two million study photographs of art and architecture from antiquity through the 20th-century. These special collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the public. Twice a year, the GRI presents exhibitions that highlight a particular area of the library’s extensive holdings.


About the Postcards of Algiers Photos

The photographs of vintage postcards of Algiers, which date from 1902 - 1932, are drawn from two GRI library collections: the Cities and Sites Postcard Collection, which features 19th- and early 20th-century images from countries under colonial rule, and the extensive ACHAC (Association Connaissance de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine) collection, which documents the impact and influence of French colonialism on both Africa and France from ca. 1900 - ca. 1957. These postcards are featured in the exhibition, Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City (May 19 - October 18, 2009 at the GRI), which examines the city’s complex history and diverse population through a variety of historic and contemporary visual sources.

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