The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Fans on Sidewalk, Man Sleeping on Stoop, Midtown Buildings, Lower Manhattan? Buildings Behind Lot, Chinatown Poultry Display, Asian Men on Street, New York]

Art Object

Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

[Fans on Sidewalk, Man Sleeping on Stoop, Midtown Buildings, Lower Manhattan? Buildings Behind Lot, Chinatown Poultry Display, Asian Men on Street, New York]

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Date:: 1929–30
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: Album Page: 25.4 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Emanuel Gerard, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.678.26–.29, .31–.33

This artwork is not on display

WHAT IS MYMET?

Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

[Fans on Sidewalk, Man Sleeping on Stoop, Midtown Buildings, Lower Manhattan? Buildings Behind Lot, Chinatown Poultry Display, Asian Men on Street, New York]

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Met Media

Met Kids

Met Store

WHAT IS MYMET?

Already have a mymet account? Sign in

Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

Related Content

[Fans on Sidewalk, Man Sleeping on Stoop, Midtown Buildings, Lower Manhattan? Buildings Behind Lot, Chinatown Poultry Display, Asian Men on Street, New York]

Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)

Met Media

Met Kids

Met Store