The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pictorial Photographs. A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895. In Twenty Plates Reproduced in Photogravure

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Faking It Symposium: Of Spooks, Proofs, and Truths

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, Louis Kaplan, Chair, Department of Visual Studies, and Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, outlines the Mumler Spirit Photograph Case. William H. Mumler, a spirit photographer, claimed that he could photograph subjects with the spirits of their deceased relatives and friends. Mumler was eventually tried for fraud, resulting in a heavily debated trial. One of his more notable subjects included Mary Todd Lincoln, who was photographed with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln.

Part Five of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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Pictorial Photographs. A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1895. In Twenty Plates Reproduced in Photogravure

Robert Demachy (French, 1859–1936)

Artist:: Phillipp Von Schoeller (Austrian)
Artist:: Ralph Winwood Robinson (British, 1862–1942)
Artist:: John A. Hodges
Artist:: Henry E. Davis
Artist:: Alfred Horsley Hinton (British, 1863–1908)
Artist:: James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864–1946)
Artist:: Hector Collard
Artist:: Julius Strakosch (Austrian)
Artist:: Frank M. Sutcliffe (British, 1853–1941)
Artist:: Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830–1901)
Artist:: Hans Watzek (Austrian, 1848–1903)
Artist:: Emile Joachim Constant Puyo (French, 1857–1933)
Artist:: René Le Bègue (French, 1857–1914)
Artist:: Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918)
Artist:: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
Artist:: Tom Bright (British)
Author:: Walter L. Colls (British)
Date:: 1880s
Classification:: Books
Credit Line:: Gift of Alfred Stieglitz, 1922, transferred from the Library
Accession Number:: 1991.1073.95

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