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A Photographic Truth

Mark Osterman—Process Historian, Kay R. Whitmore Conservation Center, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film—discusses the origins of photography and the history of manipulation. Using rare examples from the George Eastman House's collection as well as his own artwork, he illustrates the historical methods used by many photographers.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Newcastle on Tyne

Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)

Date:: 1850s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: 11 1/16 x 14 1/4
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.670

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

(sold, Christie's South Kensington, Lot 192, October 27, 1983); Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York
Notes

This print was part of the so-called Grey album: the personal album of R. Fenton containing mostly unique prints (sky studies - odalisque in the Rubel Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
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