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Faking It Symposium: Constructed Truths

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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Seaweed, Carmel

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:: 1930, printed ca. 1954
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 19.0 x 23.8 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 3/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1957
Accession Number:: 57.519.31

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