The Metropolitan Museum of Art - In Olden Times, if Folks Were Good, the Stork Would Bring a Baby Sweet and Fair

Faking It Symposium: Indexical Fingers

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

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

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In Olden Times, if Folks Were Good, the Stork Would Bring a Baby Sweet and Fair

Keystone View Company, London

Date:: 1907
Medium:: Gelatin silver prints
Dimensions:: Image: 7.8 x 6.5 cm (3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.) each
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982
Accession Number:: 1982.1182.96