The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Street Scene, Vicksburg, Mississippi]

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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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[Street Scene, Vicksburg, Mississippi]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)

Printer:: Library of Congress
Date:: 1936, printed 1971
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1972
Accession Number:: 1972.737.4
Rights and Reproduction:: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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