The National Gallery of Art’s, Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop exhibit, is a fascinating look at manipulated photography before the digital age.
From Photoshop to Instagram, photo manipulation is commonplace today and something easily done in the digital-era. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before digital imagery.
The exhibit, which runs through May 5, features around 200 photographs from the 1840s through the 1980s.
Io + gatto (Cat + I), 1932
Via: Wanda Wulz/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, courtesy of the National Gallery
Room with eye , 1930
Via: Maurice Tabard/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, courtesy of the National Gallery
Seated man with Brattle Street Church seen through window, 1850
Via: Albert Sands Southworth, Josiah Johnson Hawes/Private collection courtesy of the National Gallery
