The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Hepaticas, Near Sheffield, Massachusetts

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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 introduction, Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a brief overview of the history of manipulated photography, and gives contemporary examples of images created using Photoshop.

Part One of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Hepaticas, Near Sheffield, Massachusetts

Eliot Porter (American, 1901–1990)

Date:: 1957
Medium:: Dye transfer print
Dimensions:: 26.9 x 25.7 cm. (10 9/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of the artist, in honor of David Hunter McAlpin, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.625.10
Rights and Reproduction:: © 1990 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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