The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Esneh, Dattiers, Sycomore et Café Sur le Bord du Nil

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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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, 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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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Esneh, Dattiers, Sycomore et Café Sur le Bord du Nil

Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)

Printer:: Imprimerie Photographique de H. de Fonteny et Cie
Date:: 1851–52, printed 1853–54
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: 23.8 x 30.5 cm. (9 3/8 x 12 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976
Accession Number:: 1976.607.72

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