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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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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, 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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Robert Dietrich

Unknown, French 

Date:
1926
Medium:
Gelatin silver print with applied color
Dimensions:
15.7 x 11.4 cm. (6 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1996
Accession Number:
1996.158.2

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  • Description

    These photographs of thieves and assassins were heavily retouched with ink and gouache to facilitate their reproduction in illustrated newspapers and magazines. Although they were not conceived as typological studies, the cropping and retouching deliberately intensified their sinister aspect, producing caricatures of criminality that satisfied the sensationalism of the picture press.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Incribed in black ink on print, verso, T: "Robert Dietrich[last name underlined]/Escroc des Compagnies d'Assu-//rances, anété à Paris//P. P. 8/12/26"; inscribed in blue pencil, BLC: "1242"; stamped in black ink, BRC: "SOCIÉTE DU PETIT PARISIEN//DUPUY &C [IE] -8 DEC 1926//16 18 20 22 Rue d'Enghien//PARIS"; inscribed in black ink on print, verso, from T to B [sideways]: "Robert Dietrich [underlined]"

  • Provenance

    Charles Schwartz

190019151

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