The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Crape

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Program Information

Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

Program information

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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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Crape

William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)

Date:: 1839–40
Medium:: Photogenic drawing
Dimensions:: 9.6 x 11.5 cm (3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Accession Number:: 36.37 (15)

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