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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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, Jordan Bear, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto, presents multiple examples of Photo-Diagrams, or photographs that have been turned into photo illustrations in order to inform viewers about events that a photographer was not present to capture.

Part Four of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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

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[Still Life with Statuary]

Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801–1887)

Date:: Early 1850s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 26.2 x 20.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.379

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Initialed in the negative "H B"
Provenance

(sold, Sotheby's, London, May 10, 1990, lot 282); Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York
Notes

This hitherto unrecorded composition incorporates various items which appear in other, usually less elaborate, still life groupings. Studies of casts from his studio were amongst the very earliest subjects by Bayard in his early experiments with his direct positive process in early 1839 and 1840. He went on in the early 40s and 50s to make a number of further still life studies, and photographs in his studio which included objects which had featured in the still-life. [Pierre Apraxine]
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What
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The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France

Mission Héliographique, 1851

France, 1800–1900 A.D.

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