The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Mrs. Angus McDonald and Children, Wife of the Illustrator

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, 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

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Mrs. Angus McDonald and Children, Wife of the Illustrator

Elizabeth Buehrmann (American, born 1886)

Date:: 1900s–1910s
Medium:: Platinum print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of the artist, 1962
Accession Number:: 62.579.20

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