The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Maison Close

Art Object

Program Information

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

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

Video/Audio (1)

James Nares: <em>Street</em>

James Nares: Street
(00:02:17) 18338 views

Related Content

St. Cloud near Paris

St. Cloud near Paris

Terre-plein du Pont Neuf, Matinée d'Hiver

Terre-plein du Pont Neuf, Matinée d'Hiver

Rue Laplace and Rue Valette, Paris

Rue Laplace and Rue Valette, Paris

Browse current and upcoming exhibitions and events.

Evening Preview and Reception—The Civil War and American Art and Photography and the American Civil War
May 30, 2013
Study Day—The American Civil War and the Body
May 31, 2013
Evening Preview and Reception—The Civil War and American Art and Photography and the American Civil War
June 4, 2013
Exhibition Tour—At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston
June 8, 2013
Drums of War
June 14, 2013
Exhibition Tour—Photography and the American Civil War
June 14, 2013

Maison Close

Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)

Date:: 1921, printed 1956
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1956
Accession Number:: 56.610.10

This artwork is not on display

190021703