The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Miss Grace Mayer

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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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Miss Grace Mayer

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date:: 1930s, printed 1936
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 24.7 x 19.5 cm. (9 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Jane Mayer, 1949
Accession Number:: 49.54
Rights and Reproduction:: © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.

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