Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

Can you spot which photos are fake? Put your eyes to the test!

Faking It is a quiz-style interactive game that asks players to spot which photos are fake and figure out why they were altered. Through sets of questions accompanied by remarkable images, the game challenges misconceptions about the history of photo manipulation.

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PROJECT
Produced for The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop in 2012.

FORMAT AND DISTRIBUTION
Interactive installed on touch screens (iPads); distributed as a free iPad app, also available online as a web app.

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director: Paco Link
Producer: Rachel Rothbaum
Design: Kevin Part and Natasha Mileshina
Production Coordinator: Staci Hou
iOS Developer: Kieran Lynn