Faking It

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Wanda Walz, Io + Gatto, 1932

 Jerry N. Uelsmann, Untitled, 1976

Maurice Tabard, Room with Eye, 1930

Edward J. Steichen, Rodin - The Thinker, 1904

Keystone View Company, London,  

In Olden Times, if Folks Were Good, the Stork Would Bring 

a Baby Sweet and Fair,  1907

Henry Peach Robinson, She Never Told Her Love, 1857

Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960

All on view as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current exhibition, "Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop." Up through Jan. 27, 2013; more info here.

Image of the Day

. Yves Klein directs paint-smeared women in Anthropometries of the Blue Epoch at the Galerie internationale d'art contemporain, Paris, March 9, 1960. Photo by Charles Wilp.

A new exhibition, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers opens tomorrow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Daniel Moquay of the Yves Klein Archives will discuss Klein's work with Dia Art Foundation director Kerry Brougher in an opening day talk tomorrow at 2PM. If you happen to find yourself in the Minneap and want to check that out, click here for info.

Everyone else can visit thenewyorker.com to watch Peter Schjeldahl's audio slideshow on Yves Klein, and read an accompanying article article here.

Image Courtesy Yves Klein Archive © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo by Shunk-Kender, Photo © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation