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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

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Ti-fille Brune

Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822–1913)

Date:: 1895
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 14.3 x 9.8 cm (5 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.424

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on print, verso TL: "1"; inscribed in red pencil on print, verso TC: "1-A"; inscribed in pencil on print, verso C: "8H950II"; inscribed in red pencil on paper sleeve, recto C: "Série"; inscribed in ink on paper sleeve, recto C: "Ti fille brune // Série Pitou"
Provenance

Descendants of Adolphe Braun; [Galerie Texbraun, Paris]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, February 20, 1985
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Who
Pierre-Louis Pierson (380)
What
Photographs (32,617)

Albumen silver prints (4,720)
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Europe (150,372)

France (49,614)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,488)
In the Museum
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Haute Couture

The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860

France, 1800–1900 A.D.
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