The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation

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, Miles D. Orvell, Professor of English and American Studies, Temple University, discusses parallels between H. P. Robinson, a pictorial photographer, and W. Eugene Smith, a social documentary photographer. Both photographers, despite working in different genres of photography, manipulated the images while photographing them, sometimes asking participants to pose or repeat activities over and over again.

Part Three of Seven

Recorded November 2, 2012

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This program is made possible by Joyce Frank Menschel.

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Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925)

Artist:: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
Date:: 1907, printed 1907–9
Medium:: Platinum print
Dimensions:: 24.2 x 19.2 cm. (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
Accession Number:: 33.43.402