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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

Pavillon Sully

Édouard Baldus (French, born Prussia, 1813–1889)

Date:: 1850s–60s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 27.6 x 21.2 cm. (10 7/8 x 8 3/6 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession Number:: 1978.671.9.10

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