The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Thapsia Asclepium from Corfu

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Process and Perception

Program information

Jerry Uelsmann, whose work is included in the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, describes his influences and his evolution as an artist. Using multiple projectors and darkroom techniques, he creates dreamlike images that are considered precursors to manipulated photographs created using Photoshop.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with the exhibition, 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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Thapsia Asclepium from Corfu

William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)

Date:: 1839–40
Medium:: Photogenic drawing
Dimensions:: 22.5 x 18.5 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Accession Number:: 36.37 (26)

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