Some of my personal favourites from the first major exhibition that was devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age -
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop (October 11, 2012—January 27, 2013) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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Unknown Artist, German School, A Powerful Collision, 1910 |
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Grete Stern, Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home, ca. 1950 |
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Unknown Artist, American School, Man on Rooftop with Eleven Men in Formation on His Shoulders ca. 1930 |
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Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–1992), Hearst Over the People, 1939 |
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Maurice Tabard and Roger Parry, Room with Eye, 1930 |
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