Deck 18: Photography

Question 1

Julia Margaret Cameron accidentally created soft-focus photographs.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Match the early photographic innovator with his invention:
a.daguerreotype
c.cyanotype
b.calotype
John Herschel

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________.

A) a horse-drawn carriage
B) a human eye
C) an oil-powered lamp
D) a convection oven
E) a telephone

Question 5

The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________.

A) the aperture
B) the iris
C) the portal
D) the lumen
E) the eye

Question 6

What does the word "photograph" mean?

A) writing with light
B) signing a picture
C) imitating a drawing
D) reversing a tone
E) seeing through a lens

Question 7

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

A) it creates very detailed images
B) calotypes can be made very quickly
C) it records color
D) calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
E) it can photograph in the dark

Question 8

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.

A) it creates very detailed images
B) daguerreotypes can be made very quickly
C) it records color
D) daguerreotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
E) it can photograph in the dark

Question 9

Which of the following photographers is best known for making portraits?

A) Nadar
B) Anna Atkins
C) Abelardo Morell
D) Hannah Höch
E) Ansel Adams

Question 10

Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made.

Question 11

The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room,whether it is light or dark.

Question 12

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

A) celluloid film
B) handmade paper
C) polished metal plates
D) glass
E) canvas

Question 13

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

A) 1300s
B) 1500s
C) 1600-1750
D) early 1800s
E) 1900-50

Question 14

Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically.

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true of the Caffenol process?

A) it reduces the environmental toxicity of darkroom photography
B) the ingredients are available at most grocery stores
C) the process was created by Dr. Scott A. Williams and his students
D) it can be used to develop both negatives and prints
E) all of the above

Question 16

The first cameras were ________.

A) invisible
B) electric
C) room-sized
D) free
E) gas-powered

Question 17

The final step in developing a film in a darkroom is washing and drying the print.

Question 18

Match the early photographic innovator with his invention:
a.daguerreotype
c.cyanotype
b.calotype
Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Question 19

When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange:

A) waited all day for the woman and her family to return to their camp
B) first passed the pea-pickers' camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures
C) refused to let the prints be published
D) used actors in a studio pretending to be migrants
E) none of the other answers

Question 20

Match the early photographic innovator with his invention:
a.daguerreotype
c.cyanotype
b.calotype
William Henry Fox Talbot

Question 21

One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre,featuring:

A) words, pictures, and tree bark, on a table
B) grapes, sculptures, and a mirror, in a bowl
C) plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window
D) books, flowers, and a water jar, in a library
E) vegetables, musical instruments, and plates, on a shelf

Question 22

Compare and contrast the examples of photojournalism in this Chapter with some contemporary news photographs from a recent newspaper.How do you think the pictures in this Chapter differ from or resemble the recent photos in terms of content,appearance,and impact? Consider how these older photographs might have influenced today's photographers.Which of the images,either historical or present-day,do you find the most interesting? Why?

Question 23

Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:

A) the work of two different photographers
B) sculpture and photography
C) images from the past and present
D) images of trains and airplanes
E) none of the other answers

Question 24

What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?

A) studio style
B) snapshot aesthetic
C) photomontage
D) digital manipulation
E) quick-capture

Question 25

Discuss the idea that certain photographs can become so familiar that they are deemed icons.What makes a particular picture iconic? Think about famous photographs that might come under this title.What are their similarities? Does the reason they are so famous have to do with the artist,or another factor?

Question 26

The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later by using ________ as a means of identification.

A) the original photograph as a wanted poster
B) iris patterns from the original photograph
C) voice recordings made during his earlier interview
D) Facebook
E) all of the other answers

Question 27

Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.

A) Realism
B) Cubism
C) Dada
D) Futurism
E) Romanticism

Question 28

Color photographs could be made from the time that the first photographic processes were invented.

Question 29

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor.

Question 30

In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.

A) fun
B) colorful
C) truthful
D) surrealistic
E) none of the other answers

Question 31

Landscape photographs,such as those taken by Ansel Adams,help raise awareness about:

A) road safety and traffic rules for travelers
B) historical events on East Coast battlefields
C) how to find the best apple trees at Baxter Farms
D) nature's grandeur and the wilderness of the American West
E) how to find water in the desert

Question 32

In his photograph Two Ways of Life,Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.

A) painting
B) coloring books
C) encyclopedias
D) the silhouette machine
E) digital art

Question 33

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

A) passengers on a steam ship
B) child laborers
C) a mother and her children
D) new machinery
E) World War I

Question 34

Garry Winogrand frequently posed his subjects and arranged the composition of his photographs before taking them.

Question 35

Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.

A) backgrounds
B) proportion
C) scale
D) color
E) all of the other answers

Question 36

The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No.30,making the viewer concentrate on the ________ and ________ of the vegetable.

A) color . . . vibrancy
B) form . . . texture
C) smell . . . taste
D) stalk . . . leaf
E) all of the other answers

Question 37

What was the subject of the exhibition Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs?

A) September 11, 2001
B) the Civil War
C) US Supreme Court decisions
D) Hurricane Katrina
E) all of the other answers

Question 38

Stephen Marc's Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad explores African-American history,but the photograph itself displays none of the principles of art,such as rhythm or variety.

Question 39

Compare the approaches to photojournalism represented by Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (2.8.9)and Steve McCurry's Magician,Rajasthan,India (2.8.15).What did each photographer choose to photograph? What are the circumstances surrounding each picture? How does the appearance of the photograph contribute to its underlying meaning?

Question 40

When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?

A) 1860s
B) 1900
C) 1950s
D) 1980s
E) none of the other answers

Question 41

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Ansel Adams

Question 42

Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky intends his Manufacturing series to make viewers think about human actions leading to ________.

A) famine
B) war
C) an impact on the environment
D) protests
E) none of the other answers

Question 43

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
photomontage

Question 44

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Sally Mann

Question 45

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Julia Margaret Cameron

Question 46

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Dorothea Lange

Question 47

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
photojournalism

Question 48

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Lewis Wickes Hine

Question 49

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
negative

Question 50

Sally Mann's photograph The New Mothers was made ________.

A) in black and white
B) in color
C) using digital enhancement
D) as a photomontage
E) all of the other answers

Question 51

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
subject

Question 52

The medium of Valley of the Shadow of Death is ________.

A) the Crimean War
B) 1855
C) color photograph
D) black-and-white photograph
E) Roger Fenton

Question 53

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
positive

Question 54

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
a.photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
b.makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
c.known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
d.worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
e.used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
f.used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
Sandy Skoglund

Question 55

Compare the documentary approaches of Lewis Wickes Hine in Ten Year Old Spinner (2.8.13)and Edward Burtynsky in Manufacturing #17,Deda Chicken Processing Plant (2.8.26).What did each photographer try to record? Considering the subject matter of each image,what has been included and what left out?

Question 56

Match the photographic term with its definition:
a.image that reverses the tones of light and dark
b.using photographs to tell a news story
c.a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
d.image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
e.photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendly
f.the person,place, or thing photographed
Caffenol