LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced yesterday the acquisition of nine photographs by two important South African photographers, Pieter Hugo and Zwelethu Mthethwa. Five photographs are from Hugo’s Permanent Error series, which documents the people and landscapes of a technology dump in Ghana, and two photographs from Mthethwa’s Interiors series that shows citizens at home in the townships around Cape Town, and his Sugar Cane series, which heroically portrays sugar cane workers in South Africa. All nine photographs were acquired through the support of the Getty Museum’s Photographs Council. “These acquisitions, by two of the most influential artists in South Africa today, represent big strides in diversifying our contemporary holdings,” explains Judith Keller, senior curator of photographs at the Getty Museum. “I am thankful to the Photographs Council, not only for their continued support in making such acquisitio