Forgery in the old photos (16 photos)

Property photos - capture the reality. Usually what turns photographed becomes not only proof of the existence of the object, but also an independent reality, which itself is already perceived as a true phenomenon existed.

The record aesthetics of photography - its monochrome, limited depth of field, spots left over from sloppy developer - has become synonymous with objective reality. Events of the past acquired a reality in the present only to the extent that it was reflected in the photos. In this collection you will find examples of such pseudo-realities.



1. Stephen Berkman Exhibit (From the archives of the Academy of Sciences)



2. Joan Fontcuberta, the series "Fauna»

At the same time, many contemporary photographers use this property photos to explore the phenomenon of the relation of photography and reality itself. Can we trust the pictures? Can we trust the reality itself?



3. Eugene Isidore Buguet.

In the mid-19th century there were many photographic studio with spiritualistic bias. For a fee, customers could be photographed in the company with the spirit of his deceased relative or a famous person.



4. Arthur_Rothstein. The skull of a bull, South Dakota, Badlands, 1936.

The photographer was subjected to severe criticism by the press only for the fact that when shooting he moved a little skull in order to achieve a better composition.



5. Stephen Berkman, Creating



6. Stephen Berkman, from memory.



7. Joan Fontcuberta, the series "Fauna»



8. Joan Fontcuberta, the series "Fauna»



9. Joan Fontcuberta, the series "Fauna»



10. Joan Fontcuberta, a series of "Sputnik", a story about a Soviet cosmonaut of the sources Ivan



11. Joan Fontcuberta, a series of "Sputnik", a story about a Soviet cosmonaut of the sources Ivan



12. Asger Carlsen. Visual absurdities fictional photographer remembered for a long time.



13. David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Falling Buffalo), 1988-89



14. Jeff Wall, «Negotiations dead", 1992



15. Photo from the book by D. King "Missing commissars».



Photographic "remedial reality" in the USSR 20-40's devoted an entire book. With a wave of brush retoucher people simply disappeared from reality, and then die. More about this book is told in Orwell's "1984?