The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Faking It Symposium: Constructed Truths

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, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, outlines the history of photography in the courtroom and the inherent problems in regarding photographs as true.

Part Six of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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

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He Lost His Head

Unknown, American

Date:: 1910s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: Image: 9.7 x 10.8 cm (3 13/16 x 4 1/4 in.) Frame: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Robert, Catherine and Molly Yoskowitz, 2011
Accession Number:: 2011.504.1