Long before the invention of Photoshop , artists were create trippy and not bad bastard images — and a novel exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows how . “ Faking It : Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop”opens at the Museum on Oct. 11 , and the New York Daily News has a collection of some of the most surreal and harebrained fake exposure .
The techniques used to make these paradigm include multiple exposure on a single negative , and printing a unmarried print from multiple negative . Says conservator Mia Fineman , “ There is this whole counter - tradition that is not about creating an accurate , reliance - worthy image of the world , but about using the camera and sullen - elbow room techniques to fudge the trueness . ”
control out a few of our favorite images below , andtons more at the New York Daily News site .
Top image : ‘ Room With Eye ’ ( 1930 ) by Maurice Tabard ( 1897–1984 )
‘ Dream No . 1 : ‘ Electrical Appliances for the Home ’ ( 1948 ) by Grete Stern ( 1904 - 1999 )
‘ Two - Headed Man ’ ( 1855 ) by unnamed American artist
‘ Man on Rooftop with Eleven Men in Formation on His Shoulders ’ ( ca . 1930 ) by unidentified American artist
‘ Man Juggling His Own Head ’ ( ca . 1880 ) by unidentified French creative person
‘ Hearst Over The People ’ ( 1939 ) by Barbara Morgan ( 1900 - 1992 )
‘ steerable Docked on Empire State Building , New York ’ ( 1930 ) by unnamed American creative person
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