The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Portrait of America

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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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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Portrait of America

Diego Rivera (Mexican, Guanajuato 1886–1957 Mexico City)

Author:: Bertram D. Wolfe (American, 1896–1977)
Date:: 1934
Classification:: Books
Credit Line:: Walker Evans Archive, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.265.349

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