The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Straw Hat

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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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The Straw Hat

Emile Joachim Constant Puyo (French, 1857–1933)

Date:: 1904, printed 1906
Medium:: Halftone
Dimensions:: 21.5 x 16.1 cm. (8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number:: 49.55.217

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