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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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The Old Order and the New

Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856–1936)

Printer:: Valentine of Dundee
Date:: 1887–88
Medium:: Platinum print
Dimensions:: 11.7 x 23.4 cm. (4 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.520.3

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