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New exhibition at N.Y.’s Met looks at roots of photo manipulation

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Before there was Photoshop, entrepreneurial art photographers might spend weeks in the dark room, altering a single photo until it looked just the way they wanted it. A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at that history of manipulation.

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