The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Abou Sembil, Grand Spéos - Statues Colossales, Vues de Trois-Quarts

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Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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 introduction, Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a brief overview of the history of manipulated photography, and gives contemporary examples of images created using Photoshop.

Part One of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Abou Sembil, Grand Spéos - Statues Colossales, Vues de Trois-Quarts

Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)

Date:: 1851–52
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 30 x 24.4 cm (11 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.) Mount: 51.6 x 39.9 cm (20 5/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.690

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Letterpress on mount, recto TC: "NUBIE"; BC: "ABOU - SEMBIL // GRAND SPÉOS - STATUES COLOSSALES VUES DE TROIS-QUARTS. // Pl. 155"; Below image L: "Imp. Phot. de H. Fonteny et Cie. f. à Paris en 1851, r. St. Nicolas d'Antin, 72."; Below image C: Félix Teynard." Below image R: "Publié par Goupil et Cie. éditeurs, Paris, Londres, Berlin, New-York."
Provenance

Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1981; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York
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Félix Teynard (124)
What
Photographs (32,550)

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Europe (148,586)

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A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
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