In this lecture recorded on February 24, 2013, exhibition curator Mia Fineman traces
photographic manipulation from the 1840s through the 1980s and shows that photography is — and always has been — a medium of fabricated truths and artful lies.
Whereas the painters in Nature Studies I may have found creative impetus
from photographically - reproduced work or used it as part of their method, these eight artists employ a host of respective
photographic processes that, for the most part, draw our attention to the concerns, formats and styles typically seen in and expected of painting such as the artifice of arrangement, the
manipulation of formal elements, and the projection of symbolic meaning or narrative content.