The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Tivoli Bath

Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

Program information

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

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Tivoli Bath

Tano Cicioni (Italian)

Date:: 1970s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of the artist, 1978
Accession Number:: 1978.612.2

This artwork is not on display

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