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Exhibition: Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop

Wednesday, December 31, 1969.

Through Sun, May 5
FREE!

In the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photographs before the digital age, more than 150 works demonstrate how today's digitally altered photographs belong to a tradition that extends back to the beginning of photography. Featuring visually captivating photographs, the exhibition traces photographic manipulation from the 1840s through the 1980s and show that photography is--and always has been--a medium of fabricated truths and artful lies.

Organized by The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York. Made possible by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art

West Building, Ground Floor