The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Italianate Revival House with Man on Sidewalk, Possibly John Brooks Wheelwright, Cambridge, Massachusetts]

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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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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 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

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[Italianate Revival House with Man on Sidewalk, Possibly John Brooks Wheelwright, Cambridge, Massachusetts]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)

Date:: 1930–31
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 14.9 x 11.2 cm (5 7/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1952
Accession Number:: 52.562.26
Rights and Reproduction:: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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