The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egyptian Musicians (Rawabí) and Almée

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Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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Egyptian Musicians (Rawabí) and Almée

Ernest Benecke (German, born England, 1817–1894)

Date:: February 20, 1852
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joseph M. Cohen Gift, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.319

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Signed, titled, and dated 1852 in negative; Title and date in pencil in unknown hand on lower right mount
Provenance

[Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, March 10, 1994
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