The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Lycian Saloon, British Museum

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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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The Lycian Saloon, British Museum

Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)

Date:: 1850s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Museum Accession
Accession Number:: X.663.3

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