The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pierre Auguste Renoir

Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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 introduction, Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a brief overview of the history of manipulated photography, and gives contemporary examples of images created using Photoshop.

Part One of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

Unknown, French

Date:: 1900s–1910s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 15.6 x 11.1 cm. (6 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Bequest of Dorothy Varian, 1986
Accession Number:: 1986.1135.4

This artwork is not on display

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