The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Alexander Jensen Low

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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

Program information

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

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Alexander Jensen Low

George Platt Lynes (American, East Orange, New Jersey 1907–1955 New York)

Date:: 1930s–40s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 24.3 x 19.6 cm. (9 9/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
Accession Number:: 1970.565.7
Rights and Reproduction:: © Estate of George Platt Lynes

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