Vintage photo manipulation

In the New York Metropolitan Museum exhibition "Counterfeits: Manipulating photographs long before Photoshop».
This is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of changes in the photos - from hand-printed daguerreotypes and salt prints altered 1840s years. to the fantastic scenery of the end of XII century, when a graphic editors nobody else could know.




In this exhibition, collected about 200 photos, created in the name of art, politics, news, entertainment and commerce. The exhibition will definitely change your idea about the history of photography, forcing it to rethink the complex and changing relationship with the visual reality. Photos have been modified in various ways, including multiple exposures (two or more pictures on one negative), a joint printing (single print of the elements of two or more negatives), photomontage, invoice printing and retouching on the negative or print. In any case, the meaning and content of the photograph has been changed. The exhibition will be held from 11 October to 27 January 2013. And for those who can not get to it, take a look at some retro photo manipulation in this release.

1. Man on the roof with 11 comrades on their shoulders, gelatin-silver print halogen, approx. 1930. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



2. Dream №1: «Table Lamp," halogen-silver print, approx. 1950. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



3. "Clash of force", halogen-silver print 1910's. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



4. "The room with the eye," halogen-silver print 1930. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



5. "Lenin and Stalin in the Gorki residence outside Moscow," the collage 1922 (1949). (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



6. "The airship moored to the Empire State Building," New York, 1930. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



7. "Hurst in public", in 1939. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



8. "double-headed man", the daguerreotype, 1855. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



9. "Extinction" silver prints from glass negatives, 1858. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



10. Colorado Springs, Colorado, approx. 1913. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



11. "The study of the clouds," 1856/1857 biennium. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



12. "Portraits of Aberdeen №1», 1857. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



13. "Vision" ("The scene with Orpheus"), in 1907, platinum print. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



14. "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec as an artist and as a model," 1892. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



15. "Juggler own head", approx. 1880. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



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