The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Sir John Herschel

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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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Sir John Herschel

Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon)

Date:: April 1867
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 33.9 x 27.6 cm (13 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: The Rubel Collection, Promised Gift of William Rubel
Accession Number:: L.1997.84.7

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