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Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop

Title
Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop / Mia Fineman.
Author
Fineman, Mia.
Publication
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Description
xvi, 280 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
"It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the medium was invented. In "Faking It", Fineman demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that begins with the earliest years of photography, encompassing methods as diverse as overpainting, multiple exposure, negative retouching, combination printing, and photomontage. Among the book's revelations are previously unknown and never before published images that document the acts of manipulation behind two canonical works of modern photography: one blatantly fantastical (Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void" of 1960); the other a purportedly unadulterated record of a real place in time (Paul Strand's "City Hall Park" of 1915). Featuring 160 captivating pictures created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, "Faking It" provides an essential counterhistory of photography as an inspired blend of fabricated truths and artful falsehoods."--Publisher's website.
Subject
  • Trick photography > Exhibitions
  • Photography > Special effects > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Handworked > Exhibitions
  • Photography > Retouching > Exhibitions
  • Photography > Retouching
  • Photography, Handworked
  • Photography > Special effects
  • Trick photography
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This catalogue is published in conjunction with Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 11, 2012, through January 27, 2013; at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from February 17 through May 5, 2013; and at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from June 2 through August 25, 2013.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-298, 273) and index.
Contents
Picture perfect -- Artifice in the name of art -- Politics and persuasion -- Novelties and amusements -- Pictures in print -- Mind's eye -- Protoshop.
Call Number
MFW 13-1109
ISBN
  • 9781588394736
  • 1588394735
  • 9780300185010
  • 0300185014
LCCN
  • 2012025255
  • 99950283691
OCLC
797975278
Author
Fineman, Mia.
Title
Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop / Mia Fineman.
Imprint
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2012.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-298, 273) and index.
Added Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Other Standard Identifier
99950283691
Research Call Number
MFW 13-1109
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