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Faking It: In Conversation

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Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, leads a conversation between Mark Osterman, Jerry Uelsmann, and Amy Dresser.

Recorded October 14, 2012

Part of a Sunday at the Met program held in conjunction with Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, on view October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition is made possible by Adobe. The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Sealed Power Piston Rings

John Paul Pennebaker  (American, 1903–1953)

Date:
1933
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 25.3 x 34 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.) Frame: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Photograph Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass. (olv work 490168)

This artwork is part of Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

This artwork is not on display

  • Description

    Pennebaker was a star photographer at Underwood and Underwood Studios, an agency specializing in news, advertising, and stock photography. This diabolical image, created to promote a new type of automobile engine piston, was included in a 1934 exhibition of the era’s most innovative advertising photography held at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

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