The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Barn, Monterey County

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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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

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Barn, Monterey County

Edward Weston (American, Highland Park, Illinois 1886–1958 Carmel, California)

Printer:: Brett Weston (American, Los Angeles, California 1911–1993 Kona, Hawaii)
Printer:: Cole Weston (American, 1919–2003)
Date:: 1934, printed ca. 1954
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 19.2 x 24.4 cm (7 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1957
Accession Number:: 57.519.27

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on the mount recto below print, BLC: "5-50"; BRC: "Edward Weston// 1934"; inscribed in pencil on the mount, verso C: "Barn, Monterey Co."; TLC: "49A"; printed label affixed to mount, verso TLC: "Exhibited by// THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS SOCIETY, INC.// in// THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS BUILDING// BALBOA PARK . SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA"
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Edward Weston
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