The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Little Round Mirror

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Constructed Truths

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, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, outlines the history of photography in the courtroom and the inherent problems in regarding photographs as true.

Part Six of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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The Little Round Mirror

Edward J. Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange 1879–1973 West Redding, Connecticut)

Date:: 1901, printed 1905
Medium:: Gum bichromate over platinum print
Dimensions:: 48.3 x 33.2 cm (19 x 13 1/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
Accession Number:: 33.43.32

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