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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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Demi-Monde II 57

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, Paris 1819–1889 Paris)

Date:: 1850s–60s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification:: Albums
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.588.3.1–.155

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Each with paper insert giving negative numbers, name of sitter, and date of sitting
Provenance

Maurice Levert collection; Disderi Archive; Pescheteau-Badin, (Godeau & Leroy, Paris, Lot 184, January 28, 1995); Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York
Notes

Includes portraits of Deslions, Finette, Gesing, Gouffard, Hermann, Keller, Laperrine, Laurenty, Lecomte, Leon, Mangin, Musard, Ozy, Price, Richardson, Ricci, Sande, Soubise, Van Dyck, Walter

The Disderi Archive is of unparallel interest for the history of photography, society and fashion. Most of the albums in the sale were pre-empted by the French Museums (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Orsay, Musée de l'Armee, Compiegne etc.)

Maurice Levert (1858-1944) assembled an outstanding collection on the military history of the Second Empire, and received the Disdéri Archive from General Rebora.
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Who
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (44)
What
Photographs (32,550)

Books (17,777)

Albumen silver prints (4,705)

Albums (1,961)
Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Photographs (29,384)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860

France, 1800–1900 A.D.

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