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Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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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.

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Recorded November 2, 2012

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Carrière aux Sables de Macherin

Eugène Cuvelier  (French, 1837–1900)

Date:
1863
Medium:
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:
19.8 x 25.9 cm (7 13/16 x 10 3/16 in. )
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and Rogers Fund, 1996
Accession Number:
1996.331

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  • Description

    The granite quarries at the edge of Fontainebleau Forest, on the Arbonne plane near Macherin, provided cobblestones for the new boulevards of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s. Here, the piles of freshly cut stone look more like the ruins of a past civilization in a barren landscape beneath a foreboding sky than the building blocks of an emerging imperial capital. At the edge of the this road, quarrymen have built a shelter of rejected blocks.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed in negative, BRC: "50"; in pencil on mount, BRC: "Carrière aux Sables de Macherin"

  • Provenance

    John Chandler Bancroft, Middletown, Rhode Island, 1860s; (sold, Gustave J. S. White Co., Auctioneers, Newport, Rhode Island, March 28, 1989, to a New England antiques dealer); Mack Lee and William Schaeffer, 1989; private collector; sold or consigned to Lee and Schaeffer in 1996.

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