The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Worshipper and Smallpox Goddess

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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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, Miles D. Orvell, Professor of English and American Studies, Temple University, discusses parallels between H. P. Robinson, a pictorial photographer, and W. Eugene Smith, a social documentary photographer. Both photographers, despite working in different genres of photography, manipulated the images while photographing them, sometimes asking participants to pose or repeat activities over and over again.

Part Three of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Worshipper and Smallpox Goddess

Raghubir Singh (Indian, 1942–1999)

Date:: 1988, printed 1991
Medium:: Chromogenic print
Dimensions:: 25.3 x 37.8 cm (9 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1991
Accession Number:: 1991.1283

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Description

In this work, Singh captures the popular votive figures used by Hindus today in festivals, ceremonies, and homes. The photograph provides an interesting comparison with the work of Ravinder Reddy, whose sculptures are influenced by votive figures of this type.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed and signed in ink on print verso LL: "Worshipper and smallpox goddess, 1988 (c) Raghubir Singh"
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