{"id":10042,"date":"2012-11-16T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=10042"},"modified":"2012-11-16T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:18:47","slug":"new-exhibit-book-faking-it-manipulated-photography-before-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/10042\/new-exhibit-book-faking-it-manipulated-photography-before-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibit &amp; Book &#8211; Faking It : Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FakingIt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10043\" title=\"FakingIt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FakingIt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is one of the best exhibits I\u2019ve seen in ages!<br \/>\n\u201cWhile digital photography and image-editing software have brought about an increased awareness of the degree to which camera images can be manipulated, the practice of doctoring photographs has existed since the medium was invented.\u00a0<strong><em>Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age. Featuring some 200 visually captivating photographs created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, the exhibition offers a provocative new perspective on the history of photography as it traces the medium\u2019s complex and changing relationship to visual truth.<br \/>\nThe photographs in the exhibition were altered using a variety of techniques, including multiple exposure (taking two or more pictures on a single negative), combination printing (producing a single print from elements of two or more\u00a0negatives), photomontage, overpainting, and retouching on the negative or print. In every case, the meaning and content of the camera image was significantly transformed in the process of manipulation.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Faking It<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is divided into seven sections, each focusing on a different set of motivations for manipulating the camera image \u2026 \u00a0\u201cPicture Perfect\u201d, \u201cArtifice in the Name of Art\u201d, \u201cPolitics and Persuasion\u201dm \u201cNovelties and Amusements\u201d, \u201cPictures in Print\u201d, and \u201cProtoshop.\u201d<br \/>\nThe exhibit runs from October 11, 2012 through January 27, 2013.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/about-the-museum\/press-room\/exhibitions\/2012\/faking-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find out more about the exhibit here.<\/a><br \/>\nWhether you can or can\u2019t see the exhibit, get the book.<br \/>\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 296-page catalogue written by Mia Fineman.<br \/>\n\u201cPhotographic manipulation is a familiar phenomenon in the digital era. What will come as a revelation to readers of this captivating, wide-ranging book is that nearly every type of manipulation we associate with Adobe\u2019s now-ubiquitous Photoshop software was also part of photography\u2019s predigital repertoire, from slimming waistlines and smoothing away wrinkles to adding people to (or removing them from) pictures, not to mention fabricating events that never took place. Indeed, the desire and determination to modify the camera image are as old as photography itself\u2014only the methods have changed.<br \/>\nBy tracing the history of manipulated photography from the earliest days of the medium to the release of Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, Mia Fineman offers a corrective to the dominant narrative of photography\u2019s development, in which champions of photographic \u201cpurity,\u201d such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, get all the glory, while devotees of manipulation, including Henry Peach Robinson, Edward Steichen, and John Heartfield, are treated as conspicuous anomalies. Among the techniques discussed on these pages\u2014abundantly illustrated with works from an international array of public and private collections\u2014are multiple exposure, combination printing, photomontage, composite portraiture, over-painting, hand coloring, and retouching. The resulting images are as diverse in style and motivation as they are in technique. Taking her argument beyond fine art into the realms of politics, journalism, fashion, entertainment, and advertising, Fineman demonstrates that the old adage \u201cthe camera does not lie\u201d is one of photography\u2019s great fictions.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faking-Manipulated-Photography-Photoshop-Metropolitan\/dp\/0300185014\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1352328442&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Faking+It%3A+Manipulated+Photography+Before+Photoshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preview the book here.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best exhibits I\u2019ve seen in ages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16,401],"tags":[88,3025,141],"post_folder":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Exhibit &amp; 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