The Metropolitan Museum of Art - William O'Donovan and a Lady

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Constructed Truths

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, 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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William O'Donovan and a Lady

Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Date:: 1880s
Medium:: Platinum print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Charles Bregler, 1944
Accession Number:: 44.75.4

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