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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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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, 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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James Van Der Zee  (American, Lenox, Massachusetts 1886–1983 New York)

Date:
1933
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gift of James Van DerZee Institute, 1970
Accession Number:
1970.539.20

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