The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Geyser Springs, the Witches' Cauldron

Faking It Symposium: Welcome and Introduction

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

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe.
This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

Geyser Springs, the Witches' Cauldron

Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)

Date:: 1860s
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 40.5 x 51.8 cm (15 15/16 x 20 3/8 in.), arch-topped Mount: 55.6 x 70.3 cm (21 7/8 x 27 11/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.1179

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