The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick]

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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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[Beauchamp Chapel, Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Warwick]

Possibly by Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)

Date:: 1855–60
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 24.6 x 19.5 cm (9 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, Susan and Thomas Dunn Gift, 2010
Accession Number:: 2010.316

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Possibly from the "gray albums" sold at Christies's London in the late 1970s; [Robert Hershkowitz, Sussex, by 1988]; [Lee Gallery, Winchester, Mass., 1995]; (Sotheby's, New York, October 8, 1997, lot 18]; unknown buyer; Michael Mattis; [Lee Gallery, Winchester, Mass., 2009]
Notes

The Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Church in Warwick was constructed 1443-63. The tomb on the right is that of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d.1439), and dates from 1447-50.
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