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Faking It Symposium: Of Spooks, Proofs, and Truths

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Faking It Symposium: Of Spooks, Proofs, and Truths

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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, Louis Kaplan, Chair, Department of Visual Studies, and Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, outlines the Mumler Spirit Photograph Case. William H. Mumler, a spirit photographer, claimed that he could photograph subjects with the spirits of their deceased relatives and friends. Mumler was eventually tried for fraud, resulting in a heavily debated trial. One of his more notable subjects included Mary Todd Lincoln, who was photographed with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln.

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Recorded November 2, 2012

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Pictorial Photographs. A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1896. In Eighteen Plates Reproduced in Photogravure

Paul Bergon  (French, 1863–1912)

Artist:
Janet Reid
Artist:
Eustace G. Calland (British)
Artist:
Ernest R. Ashton (British, 1867–1952)
Artist:
William Crooke (Scottish)
Artist:
Lionel C. Bennett (British)
Artist:
Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
Artist:
Henry Van der Weyde
Artist:
Paul Martin
Artist:
Emile Joachim Constant Puyo (French, 1857–1933)
Artist:
Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830–1901)
Artist:
Hans Watzek (Austrian, 1848–1903)
Artist:
W. Thomas (British)
Artist:
Heinrich Kühn (Austrian (born Germany), Dresden 1866–1944 Birgitz)
Artist:
Robert Demachy (French, 1859–1936)
Artist:
Alfred Horsley Hinton (British, 1863–1908)
Artist:
Alfred Maskell
Author:
Walter L. Colls (British)
Date:
1880s
Classification:
Books
Credit Line:
Gift of Alfred Stieglitz, 1922, transferred from the Library
Accession Number:
1991.1073.96

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  • Provenance

    Alfred Stieglitz

  • Notes

    Photographers represented are: Stieglitz; A. Horsley Hinton; Robert Demachy (2); Heinrich Kühn; W. Thomas; Henry Van der Weyde; Hans Watzek; Alfred Maskell; Paul Martin; Lionel C. Bennett; Paul Bergon; Ernest R. Ashton; Henry Peach Robinson; W. Crooke; Eustace Calland; Emile Joachim Constant Puyo; Janet Reid. All photogravures are printed by Walter L. Colls.

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