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Faking It Symposium: Of Spooks, Proofs, and Truths

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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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Air-raid Shelter, London

Bill Brandt  (British (born Germany), Hamburg 1904–1983 London)

Date:
1940
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 24.4 x 19.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.) Sheet: 25 x 24.5 cm (9 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts, by exchange, 2005
Accession Number:
2005.100.705

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Stamped: "BILL BRANDT"

    Inscription: Signed in ink, verso BR: "Bill Brandt"; titled in ink, verso C, above and below artist's stamp: "Air-raid shelter, London. // Blackout [crossed out]", "page 74 [crossed out] 59 A A [crossed out] C"; stamped in blue ink, verso C: "BILL BRANDT"

  • Provenance

    Norman Hall Collection; [Marlborough Gallery, New York and London]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, May 17, 1976

  • Notes

    Date per Gilman catalogue--see bibliography; Norman Hall was the picture editor of the LONDON TIMES and PHOTOGRAPHY magazine, and a great supporter of Brandt's work.

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