The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof]

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Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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 introduction, Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a brief overview of the history of manipulated photography, and gives contemporary examples of images created using Photoshop.

Part One of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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[Charleston on the Bauhaus Roof]

T. Lux Feininger (American (born Germany), Berlin 1910–2011 Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Date:: 1927
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 8.4 x 11.4 cm (3 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:: 1987.1100.107

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Description

The Charleston, a fast-paced American jazz dance, swept through Europe after Josephine Baker introduced it to Parisian audiences in the Revue Nègre in 1925. The surprisingly tilted frame of this photograph suggests that, like the dancer (Xanti Schawinsky) and his accompanist (Clemens Röseler), the photographer too had become infected with the music's swinging rhythms.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Stamped in negative (?) on print, recto LL: "FOTO LUX FEININGER"; signed in pencil, verso: "Lux F."; inscribed and signed in ink, verso LC: "Le charleston sur le toit du Bauhaus // (1927) // Lux Feininger"; markings in orange pencil, verso CL; inscribed on round label affixed to print, verso UL: "79";
Provenance

Lux Feininger; [Prakapas Gallery, Bronxville, New York]; John C. Waddell, New York (November 1, 1980)
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