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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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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, Jordan Bear, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto, presents multiple examples of Photo-Diagrams, or photographs that have been turned into photo illustrations in order to inform viewers about events that a photographer was not present to capture.

Part Four of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Édouard Baldus  (French, born Prussia, 1813–1889)

Date:
ca. 1859
Medium:
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:
19.9 x 29.0 cm. (7 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944
Accession Number:
44.55.16

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