A Guide to the Best of Southern California : GOING PLACES : Now in Malibu: Masters of Subjectivity

‘As with every art, in photography the most important thing is that we feel fully what we are doing,” said Hungarian-born photographer Andre Kertesz, describing the works he and his counterparts started producing just after World War I. These experiments--the photographer interjecting his own feelings into the familiar--would continue indefinitely under the rubric subjectivity. A stunning collection of prints representing the genre, “Experimental Photography: The New Subjectivity,” is on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum, joining the remarkable Greek and Roman antiquities, pre-20th-Century Western European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts housed in the lovely re-created 1st-century Roman country villa overlooking the Pacific. Among the works: Kertesz’s “Diver,” Czechoslovakian Josef Sudek’s “Late Roses,” American expatriate Man Ray’s “Cannes” and American W. Eugene Smith’s “The Wake,” all of which capture the drama of a moment in a single powerful image.

Through March 4, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu; admission is free, but parking reservations are required, (213) 458-2003.