The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pyramides de Gizèh

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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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, Jordan Bear, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Toronto, presents multiple examples of Photo-Diagrams, or photographs that have been turned into photo illustrations in order to inform viewers about events that a photographer was not present to capture.

Part Four of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

Images (2)

Pyramides de Gizèh

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884)

Date:: 1865–69
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 31.1 x 41.8 cm (12 1/4 x 16 7/16 in.) Mount: 45.9 x 62.5 cm (18 1/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Robert Shapazian, 2009
Accession Number:: 2009.440.1

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Facsimile signature stamp in red ink on print, BLC: "Gustave Le Gray"; inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: "28", BRC: "Pyramides de Gizèh // Gizèh"; inscribed in pencil on mount, verso TLC: "M/3 3", TRC: "BL19853".
Provenance

Félix Paponot; [...]; [sold Rieunier & Bailly--Pommery (Hotel Drouot), Paris, March 19, 2001]; [Baudoin Lebon, Paris]; Robert Shapazian
Notes

This image is the left portion of a three-part panorama. The photograph was one of forty-four in an album entitled "Moyenne-Êgypte, tome I" made for Félix Paponot, an engineer working on the Ismailiya Canal. This is the only known print of this image.
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What
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