Five photographers who documented Los Angeles' Latino communities across four decades now fill the Getty Center's west pavilion.

"Every Minute is History: Five Views of Los Angeles" opened Tuesday, Sept. 1, and runs through Jan. 3, 2027. The show is on the lower level of the west pavilion at 1200 Getty Center Drive.

The exhibition features work by Laura Aguilar, Reynaldo Rivera, George Rodriguez, Patssi Valdez and Ricardo Valverde. Their photographs span the 1960s through the 1990s, capturing the Chicano liberation movement, East LA street life, underground nightclubs and queer communities.

Arpad Kovacs, associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, organized the show. Kovacs said in a Getty statement that the exhibition celebrates recent acquisitions and reflects the museum's commitment to representing local communities through its collection.

Each photographer brought a distinct lens to the city. George Rodriguez, born in 1937, grew up near his father's shoe repair shop on Skid Row and picked up a camera as a high school student in South Central, according to NPR. His photographs in the show document the Sunset Strip Riots, the United Farm Workers movement and celebrity culture.

Ricardo Valverde, who died in 1998, photographed his family, friends and the East LA community where he lived while working for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. In his final decade, he experimented with pigment and incised marks on older negatives, creating increasingly abstract images.

Laura Aguilar, a fifth-generation Angelena born in San Gabriel in 1959, became known for compassionate portraits of queer communities and vulnerable self-portraits set in the landscapes of the American Southwest. She died in 2018 at 58.

Patssi Valdez, born in 1951, co-founded the influential artist collective ASCO before turning to studio-based photography in the mid-1980s. Her work centered on friends and collaborators, including participants in paper fashion shows organized by Self Help Graphics & Art, the East LA community arts center that began staging annual Day of the Dead celebrations in 1982.

Reynaldo Rivera, born in Mexicali in 1964, documented LA's underground music, nightlife and drag performance scenes during the 1980s and 1990s. In a June 2022 profile in Aperture magazine, Rivera described his approach: "I took people that were ordinarily considered freaky and made them look amazing, or cool, or normal."

The show runs alongside "Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography," also on view through Jan. 3, 2027, in the same pavilion. That exhibition presents works from 13 photographers spanning the late 1920s to the mid-2010s, including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide and Pedro Meyer.

Both exhibitions are free. Visitors can find hours and parking details at getty.edu.