RICK CASTRO: THE QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

 6/18/2025/WEDNESDAY/3:50AM

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTY MUSEUM, 2025~

RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Getty Museum,

West Pavilion, through September 28th, 2025.

Perhaps the best photo collection I have experienced.

Queer representation spanning from 1839, (when the camera was invented) to present day.

Icons, famous & infamous, featuring heroes who inspired me to create photography,

Pierre Molinier, Brassai, Diane Arbus,

F. Holland Day, Barron Wilhelm von Gloeden, Eadweard Muybridge,

Thomas Eakins, Man Ray, Wegee, Bob Mizer, (AMG), George Platt Lynes, Lisette Model, George Dureau, McDermott & McGough, and more.

To be included with these artists is one of the joys of my life thus far-

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTY MUSEUM, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTY MUSEUM, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTY MUSEUM, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTY MUSEUM, 2025~

RICK CASTRO: WIZARD OF OZ- JITTERBUG

6/17/2025/TUESDAY/6:10AM

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ THROUGH, SEPT, 28TH, 2025~

RICK CASTRO: REALLY SAYING SOMETHING

 6/16/2025/MONDAY/4:33AM

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ 2025~

RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY @gettymuseum  

exhibition opens today- thru September 28th, 2025.  

accompanied by $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives — Also running thru September, 

features paintings, ephemera, video and photography to highlight LGBTQ+ histories, culture and people from 1900 to the present day.  

Queer pho­tog­ra­ph­er Rick Cas­tro, whose work fea­tures in the exhi­bi­tion said:

​“I am hap­py to be part of the first exclu­sive­ly queer pre­sen­ta­tion at the Get­ty Center.
“This event is sig­nif­i­cant and his­toric as the Get­ty has com­mit­ted the muse­um to queer art pres­ence dur­ing Pride, 2025.

I applaud Getty’s com­mit­ment to the GLBTQ com­mu­ni­ties dur­ing these dark times in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics,” he continued.

“It took all my adult life as an artist to make it to the Get­ty. I will proud­ly take my flowers.”

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ 2025~

RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY- @gettymuseum  

exhibition opens today- thru September 28th, 2025.  

accompanied by $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives — Also running thru September, 

features paintings, ephemera, video and photography to highlight LGBTQ+ histories, culture and people from 1900 to the present day.  

Queer pho­tog­ra­ph­er Rick Cas­tro, whose work fea­tures in the exhi­bi­tion said:

​“I am hap­py to be part of the first exclu­sive­ly queer pre­sen­ta­tion at the Get­ty Center.
“This event is sig­nif­i­cant and his­toric as the Get­ty has com­mit­ted the muse­um to queer art pres­ence dur­ing Pride, 2025.

I applaud Getty’s com­mit­ment to the GLBTQ com­mu­ni­ties dur­ing these dark times in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics,” he continued.

“It took all my adult life as an artist to make it to the Get­ty. I will proud­ly take my flowers.”

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ 2025~

RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY- catalog, 2025  

available now @gettymuseum  

exhibition opens today- thru September 28th, 2025.  

~RICK CASTRO: QUEER LENS- A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY~
CATALOG, 2025~

~RICK CASTRO: GETTY MUSEUM~ 2025~