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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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Xenia Kashevaroff

Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California)

Date:: 1931
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 22.1 x 14.7 cm. (8 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972
Accession Number:: 1972.520.3

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on the mount, recto below BRC of print: "Edward Weston// Carmel"; BRC: "3"
Provenance

Xenia Kashevaroff Cage
Notes

Xenia Kashevaroff was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest in Alaska. She later married John Cage. Mrs. Cage remembered this sittign as occuring in 1930. Conger has dated group as 1931.
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