--- product_id: 1406814 title: "Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012" brand: "mia fineman" price: "VT32879" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1406814-faking-it-manipulated-photography-before-photoshop-hardcover-october-30-2012 store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012 **Brand:** mia fineman **Price:** VT32879 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012 by mia fineman - **How much does it cost?** VT32879 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/1406814-faking-it-manipulated-photography-before-photoshop-hardcover-october-30-2012) ## Best For - mia fineman enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted mia fineman brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41f9ArgcFXL.jpg) ![Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bZQW0fRNL.jpg) ![Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop Hardcover – October 30, 2012 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41XcFIp6XLL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Important and excellent book of photography *by F***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2012* When I saw a write-up on the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for which this book serves as catalog, I immediately ordered the book sight-unseen. Smart move. This is another in a long series of outstanding books on photographic history associated with Yale University Press (here, as distributor), as usual beautifully printed and bound using high-quality materials.The text here is outstanding, laying out a history of photographic manipulations from the 1840s through the late twentieth century. Done for exaggeration, distortion, or to yield an image "more true than truth", with techniques including hand-coloring, drawing on negatives, compositing, chromolitho and half-tone printing and others, this is probably the most exhaustive study of the subject. There are other books on specific kinds of images -- exaggeration postcards. for example, and surrealist photography -- but I know no others that cover the full range so effectively. The text is also clear and accessible, and there's a section at the end that discusses each cataloged image in more detail. There's also a very good glossary at the end. Several images are shown with their component images, or detail showing negative alterations, or multiple images using a repeated component (like a cloudy sky composited into a scenic view) in order to help understand the processes.The photographs are beautifully reproduced at good size. Relatively few are at full-page, but since many were originally produced as smaller images (e.g., CDVs, postcards) that doesn't feel inappropriate. The cover alone would make it suitable for a coffee table; the contents would enthrall anyone who casually picked it up from there.My one quibble would be that there are insufficient examples drawn from parts of the world outside the US and Europe. There is a single Japanese image with hand coloring and added rain, and unsurprisingly there are several Russian and Soviet images -- the latter notorious for political editing -- and a scattered few others. To name just one example, Mexican journalistic photography is well known for its manipulations, and there are other global traditions both artistic and journalistic that could have been drawn on more fully.As noted in the text, Newhall's History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day remains a widely read classic work in the history of photography, but is specifically slanted towards "straight" photography. This volume would make an excellent companion to that work, fleshing out the history significantly. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The curators did a great job with the exhibition, and the book is even better *by N***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2013* I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Met's exhibition for which this book was prepared more than once. Some of the items on display were striking, especially the most technically accomplished ones (Camile Silvy's 1958 "River Scene" and Yves Klein's fabulous 1960 "Leap Into The Void" in particular). The same works stand out in the book, but the greater depth of analysis afforded by the printed version made certain other works even more interesting.In particular, the book makes the interesting and important case that in the early years of photography, techniques that would subsequently be viewed as "cheating," including combination of negatives, were necessary to create images that were pictorially accurate but otherwise impossible to capture with the lenses or film of the time. Examples include clouds dubbed in from one image to another, to compensate for the inability of early emulsions to properly expose blue skies, and multiple photos of a single scene shot with different focal planes to compensate for the camera's narrow depth of field.This portion of the book was, for me, by far the most interesting. The novelty photos (farmers with giant chickens) and surreal images (Audrey Hepburn with a long neck) and political images (the erasing of discredited Komisars from photos with Joseph Stalin) were worth seeing, but have all been collected elsewhere. ### ⭐⭐ Here is how it was described: Condition: Used - Good - Book as new, READY FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPPING. *by C***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2022* The book covers an interesting topic and I have no problem with that. But, to describe the book as "book as new" was totally misleading. The spine of the book was partially separated from the paper that connects to the back cover. Yes, it is used, but is certainly is not "as new". And it was not ready for immediate shipping, it was delayed. Due to family obligations, I not notice the condition in time to return it. So, I must keep it. 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