The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Yousuf Karsh (Canadian (born Armenia), Mardin 1908–2002 Boston, Massachusetts)

Date:: 1945
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 34.2 x 26.8 cm. (13 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Harry Kahn, 1986
Accession Number:: 1986.1098.10
Rights and Reproduction:: © Yousuf Karsh

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