Silk Dress Coming

Artist:: Ann Rhoney (American, born Niagara Falls, New York, 1953)

Date:: 1982; printed 1987

Medium:: Gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions:: Image: 40.4 x 26.9 cm (15 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.) Sheet: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) Frame: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)

Classification:: Photographs

Credit Line:: Purchase, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund and Nion T. McEvoy Gift, 2011

Accession Number:: 2011.419

Not on view

Frustrated by the distortions and expressive limitations of commercially produced color film, Rhoney uses oil paint to color her black-and-white photographs in a naturalistic style that allows for great chromatic subtlety yet fastidiously conceals its own artifice.

Inscription: Signed and inscribed in pencil, recto BL and BR: "Sally Robertson 1" and "Ann Rhoney"

the artist

Thackrey & Robertson. "[Unknown]," October 1991–November 1991.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," October 10, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," October 10, 2012–January 27, 2013.

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," February 17, 2013–May 5, 2013.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," June 2, 2013–August 25, 2013.

Silverman, Ruth. San Francisco Observed. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986.

Vienne, Veronique. "Ann Rhoney." Graphis 275 (September–October 1991).

Fineman, Mia. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. no. 199, pp. 197, 246.

Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop

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Thank You, Paine Webber

Artist: Hans Haacke (German, born Cologne, 1936) Date: 1979 Medium: Gelatin silver print and chromogenic print Accession: 2010.416a, b On view in:Not on view

Couple d'amoureux dans un petit café, quartier Italie

Artist: Brassaï (French (born Romania), Brașov 1899–1984 Côte d'Azur) Date: ca. 1932, printed mid-1960s Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession: 1980.1023.5 On view in:Not on view

11:00 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Artist: Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) Date: May 9, 1910 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession: 1970.727.1 On view in:Not on view

Port Authority

Artist: Ray K. Metzker (American, 1931–2014) Date: 1966–67 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession: 1990.1083 On view in:Not on view

Still from an Untitled Film

Artist: Cindy Sherman (American, born Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 1954) Date: 1978 Medium: Gelatin silver print Accession: 1992.5147 On view in:Not on view