FAKING IT: Curated by Mia Fineman

 Mia Fineman, Asst Curator, Department of Photographs

Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

EA: How long did you research for this exhibition? Mia Fineman: About three years traveling all over Europe and North America visiting collections, museums, archives, and private collectors. EA: Are there certain images that are your favorites? Mia Fineman: I was extremely happy to discover the negatives for the Yves Klein “Leap Into The Void”.  That was very exciting. I’ve always loved that image. That would probably be what I’m proudest of.

 Leap into the Void, 1960

© Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris; Photo: Shunk-Kender 

© Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 

 Dimanche–Le Journal d'un seul jour

Yves Klein, November 27, 1960

Mia Fineman: I also love the vernacular images of the decapitations. EA: I had no idea there were so many. Mia Fineman: I didn’t either until I’d started working on this show seeing so many of them and wondered why this was such a popular motif. I eventually figured out the motif of decapitation was a big thing in stage magic at the same time.

 Man Serving Head on a Platter Date, ca. 1900

William Robert Bowles (1861–1918 Hopkinsville, Kentucky)

Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011

 

 Man Juggling His Own Head, ca. 1880

Saint Thomas D'Aquin

He Lost His Head, 1910s
Unknown, American
Gift of Robert, Catherine and Molly Yoskowitz, 2011

Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

 October 11, 2012—January 27, 2013

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 ALSO VIEW:

Faking It: The Show | Faking It: The Opening

DIANA VREELAND: An Illustrated Biography

Diana Vreeland

Photograph (c) Priscilla Rattazzi /All Rights Reserved

Diana Vreeland in her apartment
Photograph (c) Jonathan Becker /All Rights Reserved

from DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

Diana Dalziel, 1911 "I have always had a wonderful imagination, I have thought of things that never could be..." –Diana Dalziel diary

Diana Vreeland
Photograph (c) Louise Dahl- Wolfe /All Rights Reserved

Diana's friend Horst P. Horst photographed her in her "Garden in Hell." As she said in DV, "All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, 'I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist Temple' – they have no idea what I'm talking about. About the best red is to copy a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait." Photograph (c) Horst P. Horst

DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon

"There's an excellent profile in Interview in which Jeanne Moreau says: "I shall die very young." "How young?" they ask her. "I don't know, maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young." – DV

Legendary fashion arbiter, Diana Vreeland, born Diana Dalziel in Paris in 1906 to an American socialite mother and British father, married businessman Reed Vreeland, and with their two young children, moved to London, where they spent six years. Vreeland made frequent visits to Paris; and befriended designers such as Patou, Schiaparelli and Chanel. Returning to the states in 1935, Vreeland wrote an inventive column for Harper's Bazaar, "Why Don't You?" and later became a top editor there. Vreeland photographed models in Frank Lloyd Wright homes instead of in staged studios. In 1963, she became Vogue's editor-in-chief during the "Swinging Sixties" youth quake era, traveling to exotic locales in Africa, India, Turkey, China, Japan, and South America with famed models of the time Jean Shrimpton, Veruschka, Penelope Tree and Twiggy. In 1971, Vreeland became the consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, creating the most exquisite exhibitions; "The Glory of the Russian Costume" prepared with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; "Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes"; "Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era"; "Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design"; "The Eighteenth-Century Woman", among many others. Mrs. Vreeland lived an artistic life, always fashionable and immensely creative. She died in 1989.

An illustrated Biography

DIANA VREELAND by Eleanor Dwight (William Morrow)

100 PRINTS | $100 | 100% of SALES TO DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2010
Photograph (c) Gilberto Tadday /All Rights Reserved

The recent earthquake has made thousands of people victims in Haiti. Exclusive photos of the situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince right after the tragedy were recorded (here) by photographer Gilberto Tadday. Tadday donated several of these images to ASMP: NY's March 5-7, 2010 Print Sale, 100% of the proceeds goes to Doctors Without Borders. Photograph (c) Gilberto Tadday /All Rights Reserved

Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia

Photograph (c) Viviane Moos /All Rights Reserved

Ground Zero 2001
Photograph (c) Robert Hooman /All Rights Reserved

Ground Zero 2001

Photograph (c) Robert Hooman /All Rights Reserved

More than 100 prints donated by ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers: New York Chapter) members will be on sale for $100 each, 100% of all sales goes directly to Doctors Without Borders.

Prints available include Viviane Moos' photograph above, Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia, an 8x12 image - signed on verso - archival metallic chromogenic prints on Kodak Endura Professional Archival Metallic paper. Also available are Stephen Mallon's photographs of the salvage of Flight 1549 (piloted safely onto New York's Hudson River by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger), black and white portraits of Hungarian-born Master Photographer Andre Kertesz by Susan May Tell, among so many others. Curated by Elizabeth Avedon.

The VERGE ART FAIR donated this ASMPNY Booth: Friday & Saturday, March 5-6 from 2-8 pm, Sunday, March 7 from 12-6 pm, The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41, NYC

PHOTOGRAPHERS HELPING HAITI

Opening Night Preview Reception $20 March 4, 6-10 pm

More Images For Sale HERE and HERE