Stanley Smith received his BA in fine Art from Western Washington University (1975). In 1982 he founded Argentum, a Seattle-based custom photographic lab and early adopter of digital imaging. In 1995, he designed and implemented the digital imaging studios for Experience Music Project, Paul Allen’s rock & roll museum, located in Seattle. In 2004, he was hired to manage the photographic and imaging studios at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Currently Mr. Smith is the Head of Collection Information and Access at the Getty where his responsibilities range from digitally documenting the collection to managing the flow of information about the artwork at the Getty—on the web, in-gallery interactives, mobile devices, and user applications.


Stanley lives in Topanga, California and is an accomplished fine-art photographer with many exhibitions in his history.