Photo Manipulation Before the Digital Age

When I was a wee Nag my father was an amateur photographer. I remember a manipulated photograph he took of his brother lighting his own cigarette. These days it would be nothing special but I was fascinated by it.
The first major exhibition devoted to history of manipulated photography before the digital age opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on October 11, 2012. It will run until January 27, 2013. Here are a few of the 200 doctored photographs that make up the exhibition:

Grete Stern

Sueño No. 1: “Articulos eléctricos para el hogar” | Dream No. 1: “Electrical Appliances for the Home”
ca. 1950

Gelatin silver print
Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2012
Courtesy of Galería Jorge Mara – La Ruche, Buenos Aires

Unknown Artist, American School
Man on Rooftop with Eleven Men in Formation on His Shoulders
ca. 1930
Gelatin silver print
Collection of George Eastman House
Photo Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saint Thomas D’Aquin

Man Juggling His Own Head
De Torbéchet, Allain & C.
ca. 1880

Albumen silver print.
Collection of Christophe Goeury
Photo Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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