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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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[Torn Circus Poster: Lion]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)

Date:: 1931
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 16.3 x 11.5 cm. (6 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1952
Accession Number:: 52.562.16
Rights and Reproduction:: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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