The Metropolitan Museum of Art - May Prinsep

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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 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.

Part One of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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May Prinsep

Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon)

Date:: 1868
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 22.5 x 20.5 cm. (8 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
Accession Number:: 41.21.18

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