The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wassileh and Lhedeh, Ghawagea

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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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, Miles D. Orvell, Professor of English and American Studies, Temple University, discusses parallels between H. P. Robinson, a pictorial photographer, and W. Eugene Smith, a social documentary photographer. Both photographers, despite working in different genres of photography, manipulated the images while photographing them, sometimes asking participants to pose or repeat activities over and over again.

Part Three of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Wassileh and Lhedeh, Ghawagea

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

Date:: 1852
Medium:: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:: Image: 21.7 x 17.3 cm (8 9/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.254

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Pencil inscription on lower right mount (unknown hand): "Wassileh et Zbedeh Ghawazee / 20 February 1852"

Inscription: Signed and titled in negative
Provenance

Noble Bavarian family, W. Bockelberg; [Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, March 10, 1994
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