The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Fête de S. A. Ismail Pacha à bord des bateaux de S. S. A. les princes

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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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Fête de S. A. Ismail Pacha à bord des bateaux de S. S. A. les princes

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884)

Date:: 1867
Medium:: Albumen print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 30.6 x 40.2 cm (12 1/16 x 15 13/16 in.) Mount: 50 x 64.8 cm (19 11/16 x 25 1/2 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.191

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