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Digital retoucher Amy Dresser discusses manipulated photography in the digital age. Dresser modifies and composites photographs for a wide range of clients. Using her background as a painter, she brings a unique touch to the images she creates.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Montage

Maurice Tabard (French, Lyons 1897–1984 Nice)

Date:: 1929
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 28.8 x 22.8 cm (11 5/16 x 9 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number:: 1987.1100.84

This artwork is not on display

Description

The form of this montage is very close to the two-dimensional collages of the Russian constructivists. Like them, Tabard's picture seems to float in an immeasurable cosmic space, composed of austere planes and representations of the actual world, which are arranged in contradictory perspectives.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Stamped on original mount in ink, verso: "PHOTO [underlined and sideways]", "Maurice // TABARD // PARIS"; stamped on original mount in blue ink, verso: "29-15 [underlined and boxed in ink]"; inscribed in ink on original mount, verso: "Montager"; stamped in blue ink on original mount, verso [upside down]: "Maurice // tabard // 38 rue du vieux // pont de sèvres // boulogne seine";
Provenance

[Sander Gallery to Waddell, June 16, 1982]; John C. Waddell
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