The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Abâzîz, Intérieure d'un Village Arabe

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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

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Abâzîz, Intérieure d'un Village Arabe

Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)

Date:: 1851–52
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 23.6 x 30.3 cm (9 5/16 x 11 15/16 in.) Mount: 39.7 x 51.7 cm (15 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.696

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Letterpress on mount, recto TC: "ÉGYPTE"; BC: "ABÂZÎZ // INTÉRIEURE D'UN VILLAGE ARABE. // Pl.11."; Below image L to R :"Imp. Phot. de H. de Fonteny et Cie. f. à Paris en 1851. r. St. Nicolas d' Antin, 72. Félix Teynard. Publié par Goupil et Cie. éditeurs, Paris, Londres, Berlin, New-York."; Inscribed in pencil, mount, verso BL: "3/22/82 4/11/83 1/10/84"
Provenance

[Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, February 12, 1982
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Who
Félix Teynard (124)
What
Photographs (32,621)

Salted paper prints (1,615)
Where
Europe (150,115)

France (49,363)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,790)
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France, 1800–1900 A.D.

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