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One of two launch volumes in an important and highly collectible new photography series by the V&A, here is an introduction to the history of staged photography in over 130 key images from the V&A’s outstanding collection.

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'[Marta Weiss's] history of freeze-frame tricks of the eye begins with gelatin-plate fantasies and ends with the emergence of digital techniques that allowed any kind of make-believe' - Observer
'Timely … plays with ideas of truth and fiction to examine the constructed nature of images … the book responds to life in an age of post-truth' - Aesthetica
'Beautiful and informative' - Black & White Photography

Making It Up Photographic Fictions

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: 27/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9780500480373, 978-0500480373
      ISBN10: 0500480370
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      One of two launch volumes in an important and highly collectible new photography series by the V&A, here is an introduction to the history of staged photography in over 130 key images from the V&A’s outstanding collection.

      Trade Review
      '[Marta Weiss's] history of freeze-frame tricks of the eye begins with gelatin-plate fantasies and ends with the emergence of digital techniques that allowed any kind of make-believe' - Observer
      'Timely … plays with ideas of truth and fiction to examine the constructed nature of images … the book responds to life in an age of post-truth' - Aesthetica
      'Beautiful and informative' - Black & White Photography

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