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Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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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.

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Recorded November 2, 2012

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Eugène Atget  (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)

Date:
1925
Medium:
Gelatin silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:
21.9 x 17.3 cm (8 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:
1987.1100.113

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  • Description

    The apparent subject of this picture is the art of commercial display in Paris in 1925. But the reflection in the window muddles the issue, for it obscures the clothing and seems to animate the mannequins and place them in the street. The picture's transparent lamination of real and artificial, outdoor and indoor, fluid and static, shimmer and substance, dissolves traditional boundaries between fact and imagination. The more complex unities it proposed appealed greatly to the Surrealists.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Stamped in ink on print, verso LC: "E. ATGET // Rue Campagne - Première [illegible]"; inscribed on print, verso UC: "Avenue des Gobelins"; inscribed on print, verso LR: "17 [illegible]"; inscribed on print, verso LC: "6? [illegible] 10 - 26. M.26."; stamped on print, verso UC: "A328"; inscribed on print, verso LC [sideways]: "155 mm [with extensive layout and crop marks and arrows overall]";

  • Provenance

    [Julien Levy]; Frank Kolodny; [Edwynn Houk]; John C. Waddell, October 19, 1984

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