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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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, Miles D. Orvell, Professor of English and American Studies, Temple University, discusses parallels between H. P. Robinson, a pictorial photographer, and W. Eugene Smith, a social documentary photographer. Both photographers, despite working in different genres of photography, manipulated the images while photographing them, sometimes asking participants to pose or repeat activities over and over again.

Part Three 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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Harry Callahan (American, 1912–1999)

Date:: 1946
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 19.6 x 24.3 cm. (7 3/4 x 9 9/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1996
Accession Number:: 1996.291c

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Signed in ink on mount, verso, top left corner: "Harry M. Callahan"

Inscription: Inscribed in ink on mount, verso, top left corner: "Harry M. Callahan // 1946 // #3"; printed, typed, and inscribed museum loan label affixed to mount, verso, center: "MUSEUM OF MODERN ART // 11 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK CITY // Harry M. Callahan // 2416 Lake View North // Chicago 14, Illinois // Loan direct from photographer // 47.732A"; dealer's inscription in pencil on mount, verso, bottom left corner: "HC37269-c"
Provenance

Artist; private collector; Paul Hertzmann, a San Francisco dealer; Pace Wildenstein MacGill, the artist’s exclusive dealer
Notes

This is the right-hand picture of a triptych, which also includes 1996.291a and b.
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