The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pamela Tent, Age 19, Dennis Hargrove, Age 22, Joan Silverman, Age 21, Eileen Stevens, Age 18, Ralph M. Sauer, Age 25, Clayton Street, San Francisco, September 1, 1968

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.

Part Five of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Pamela Tent, Age 19, Dennis Hargrove, Age 22, Joan Silverman, Age 21, Eileen Stevens, Age 18, Ralph M. Sauer, Age 25, Clayton Street, San Francisco, September 1, 1968

Elaine Mayes (American, born 1938)

Date:: 1968
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1970
Accession Number:: 1970.502.6
Rights and Reproduction:: © Elaine Mayes

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