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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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[Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Joseph Stalin on the Moscow-Volga Canal, Moscow] in Stalin (Moscow, 1940)

Unknown, Russian 

Date:
1940
Medium:
Photogravure
Dimensions:
Image: 5 x 7.5 cm (1 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.) Sheet: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.) Case
Classification:
Books
Credit Line:
David King Collection, London

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

This artwork is not on display

  • Provenance

    David King purchased this object from Moscow Antiquariat, in approximately 1987. Reproduced in David King, "The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia," (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997), p.163.

190049240

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