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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

The symposium "Truth, Lies, and Photographs" was presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012, through January 27, 2013. In this talk, Jordan Bear, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto, presents multiple examples of Photo-Diagrams, or photographs that have been turned into photo illustrations in order to inform viewers about events that a photographer was not present to capture.

Part Four of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Ernest Hemingway

Yousuf Karsh (Canadian (born Armenia), Mardin 1908–2002 Boston, Massachusetts)

Date:: 1957
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 34.2 x 27.2 cm (13 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Harry Kahn, 1986
Accession Number:: 1986.1098.12

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Photographer's stamp on print, verso LC: "COPYRIGHT // THE FOLLOWING CREDIT LINE MUST BE USED // [copyright symbol] KARSH, OTTAWA"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso UL: "ERNEST Hemingway"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso UR: "128"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso LC: "No.P.O.G."
Provenance

Yousuf Karsh, via Jo Tartt
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