Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Couple with Figure of Cupid, Unknown photographer, British, 1910s.
Couple with Figure of Cupid, Unknown photographer, British, 1910s.

From its invention, artists manipulated photographs to show what the camera couldn’t capture – from moving clouds to group portraits – and to produce a more interesting composition.  This unknown British artist’s photo from the 1910s in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ exhibition shows true love, if not a true image.  (Through Jan 27th).