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Faking It Symposium: The Apartments

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, Artist Nancy Davenport discusses her artwork, including The Apartments, a series of photographs whose interpretation changed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Davenport's artwork includes screensavers, animations, and manipulated photographs.

Part Seven of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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[Miss Mary and Lotte(?) at the Hill Crest]

Heinrich Kühn (Austrian (born Germany), Dresden 1866–1944 Birgitz)

Date:: ca. 1910
Medium:: Autochrome
Dimensions:: 23.8 x 17.8 cm (9 3/8 x 7 in)
Classification:: Transparencies
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mrs. Walter Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.370

This artwork is not on display

Description

Miss Mary is seen here probably in the company of Lotte. In the airy openness of the Tyrolean landscape, accentuated by the low angle of vision, the bent silhouette of the governess seems to call out in concern to the half-visible little figure who has ventured over the crest of the hill. Vertical cloud formations discreetly echo the figures' connectedness. All simplicity and allusion, the image is among Kühn's most felicitous.
Provenance

[Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, DC]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, October 17, 1979
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