The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Draft Johnson for President

Faking It Symposium: Return of the Suppressed

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, A. D. Coleman, an indepent critic, outlines the history of the Pictorialism movement within photography, its decline and dismissal, and its contemporary revival as an art form.

Part Two of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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

Draft Johnson for President

Weegee (American, born Hungary, 1899–1968)

Date:: ca. 1968
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: Image: 32.4 x 25.4 cm (12 3/4 x 10 in.) Mount: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.) Frame: 57.8 x 47.6 cm (22 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: International Center of Photography, New York, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (3015.1993)

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

This artwork is not on display