Bruce Berman, a Los Angeles resident who serves as chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures, is a founding member of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Photographs Council. He amassed his collection based on an interest in the documentation of twentieth-century architecture, design, and lifestyles in Southern California, and sought out photographers whose work underscores a growing appreciation of documentary photography as an American art form. In June 2017, The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a major gift of photographs from this collector and film industry executive. The donation comprises 186 works by twenty-six artists, seven of whom are entering the Getty’s collection for the first time. Among the artists represented in the gift are Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Camilo José Vergara.