Faking It

Can you spot which photos are fake? Put your eyes to the test with this app.

Description

Faking It is an iPad app that asks players to spot which photos are fake and figure out why they were altered. Through fifteen sets of questions accompanied by more than two dozen remarkable images, Faking It challenges misconceptions about the history of photo manipulation.

My Involvement

  • Role: QA/User Testing Lead

  • Tech: Photoshop, XML, Redmine
  • Year: 2012
  • Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Exhibition: Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
    October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013


    In the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photographs before the digital age, some 200 works demonstrate that today's digitally altered photographs are part of a tradition that extends back to the beginning of photography. Featuring visually captivating photographs, the exhibition traces photographic manipulation from the 1840s through the 1980s and show that photography is—and always has been—a medium of fabricated that allows truths and artful lies.

  • Link: Faking It
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