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Faking It: In Conversation

Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, leads a conversation between Mark Osterman, Jerry Uelsmann, and Amy Dresser.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with 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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Demi-Monde I 56

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

Date:: 1850s–60s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image (.2.54-64143): 18.4 x 24.8 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.) Album page: 26.2 x 34.8 cm (10 5/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Albums
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.588.2.1–.151

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 Abigdon, Amelie, d'Anvers, Barucci, Cora Pearl (several), Beresford (several), Isabelle, Bruce, Berthe, Bellanger, Benard, Braun, Creven, Crenisse, David . . .

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'Armée, Compiègne 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)

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Where
Europe (148,586)

France (52,276)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
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The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860

France, 1800–1900 A.D.

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