The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting an astonishing exhibition entitled Faking It: Photography Before Photoshop. The high priestess of the genre is Kathy Grove. We discussed her work last December in our Who’s Who column.
Kathy Grove recreates icons of photography and painting, excluding any masculine presence, and by erasing the lived experience of the female subject through the magic of plastic surgery via the airbrush. Here are a few examples of her work currently on display. The Other Series shown here were made at the onset of this ongoing project between 1987 and 1994.
Faking It Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
Curator : Mia Fineman
October 11, 2012 – January 27, 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028-0198
Phone: 212-535-7710
