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Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Can you spot which photos are fake? Can you imagine why they were altered? Put your eyes to the test. Download Faking It for the iPad, available in the App Store.

Digital cameras and image-editing software have made photo manipulation easier than ever, but photographers have been doctoring images since the medium was invented. The false "realities" in altered photographs can be either surprising and eye-catching or truly deceptive and misleading.

Faking It is a quiz that asks players to spot which photos are fake and figure out why they were altered. Through fifteen sets of questions accompanied by more than two dozen remarkable images, the Faking It app challenges misconceptions about the history of photo manipulation.

Images in the app range from a heroic portrait of Ulysses S. Grant to a playful portrait of Salvador Dalí, and from New York's glamorous Empire State Building to Oregon's sublime Cape Horn.

The app complements the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop (on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013).

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After Walker Evans: 6

Sherrie Levine (American, born 1947)

Date:: 1981
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 9.8 x 12.6 cm. (3 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 1995 (1995.266.6)
Accession Number:: PIC.130.9

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Signed and inscribed in pencil on verso BL, BR: "Sherrie Levine // After Walker Evans", "1/10 // 1981"; stamped in ink on verso: "1 7769"; inscribed in ink on sticker affixed to mat, verso BLC: "Sherrie Levine // After Walker Evans [underlined]"; inscribed in unknown hand in pencil on sticker affixed to mat, verso BLC: "Craig Owens"
Provenance

Sherrie Levine
Notes

Number 1 in an edition of 10.
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Who
Sherrie Levine (28)
What
Photographs (32,550)

Gelatin silver prints (8,690)
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North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)
When
A.D. 1900-present (77,516)
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The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

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