The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Bergmannsfrau

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Program Information

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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Bergmannsfrau

August Sander (German, 1876–1964)

Date:: 1910s–20s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 29.1 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, by exchange, 1981
Accession Number:: 1981.1141.18
Rights and Reproduction:: © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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