Deck 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts

Question 1

The "active layer" of film contains a(n)__________ of small particles of __________.

A) ​negative; silver bromide 
B) ​mixture; chromium 
C) ​resolution; sulfur dioxide 
D) ​emulsion; silver halide 
E) ​solution; silver dioxide

Answer 1

  D

Question 2

The first photographic process to leave a permanent image was invented in 1826 and known as __________.

A) ​daguerreotype 
B) ​camera obscura 
C) ​autochrome 
D) ​heliography 
E) ​bitumen

Answer 2

  D

Question 3

A flash or whirl of abruptly changing images conveys the progression of time and events in a film is known as a __________.

A) ​montage 
B) ​flash-forward 
C) ​fade 
D) ​dissolve 
E) ​longshot

Answer 3

  A

Question 4

Alexander Gardner's Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter,Gettysburg is a graphic photo taken during the __________,probably from a camera in a wagon known as a __________.

A) ​Spanish-American War; buggy 
B) ​United States Civil War; whatsit 
C) ​War of 1812; setup 
D) ​Crimean War; koolie 
E) ​first World War; sampan

Question 5

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is a touching photograph taken during the period of __________.

A) ​the Great Depression 
B) ​World War II 
C) ​the Bolshevik Revolution 
D) ​Hitler's Germany 
E) ​the Holocaust

Question 6

William Wegman's Blue Period is a canine riff on __________.

A) ​Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam 
B) ​Picasso's Old Guitarist 
C) ​Duane Hanson's Tourists 
D) ​Polykleitos's Doryphoros 
E) ​Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques

Question 7

Margaret Bourke-White wrote,"Using the camera was almost a relief; it interposed a slight barrier between myself and the white horror in front of me ..." Here,Bourke-White is describing __________.

A) ​V2 bomb destruction in World War II London 
B) ​hungry sharecroppers during the Depression 
C) ​Buchenwald during the Holocaust 
D) ​the aftermath of Chernobyl 
E) ​the bombing of Hiroshima

Question 8

Which classic early color film depicted real life in black and white and imaginary life in expressionistic color? 

A) ​Gone with the Wind 
B) ​Citizen Kane 
C) ​The Wizard of Oz 
D) ​North by Northwest 
E) ​Birth of a Nation

Question 9

A(n)__________ magnifies faraway objects and collapses the spaces between ordinarily distant objects.

A) ​telephoto lens 
B) ​f-stop 
C) ​wide-angle lens 
D) ​digital lens 
E) ​aperture

Question 10

William Henry Fox Talbot's first "photogenic drawings" were eerie,delicate photographs of __________,produced from a __________.

A) ​women; contact print 
B) ​plants; negative 
C) ​still lifes; pewter plate 
D) ​flowers; camera obscura 
E) ​landscapes; copper plate

Question 11

Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1928 surrealistic film Un Chien Andalou was intended by the creators to __________.

A) ​generate a world of fantasy 
B) ​allude to deep, hidden symbolic meanings 
C) ​make the audience laugh 
D) ​recreate the horror of the Spanish Civil War 
E) ​evoke instinctive reactions of repulsion and attraction

Question 12

After the daguerreotype,the next major advance in the history of photography was the development of the __________ process,an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.

A) ​wet-plate 
B) ​contact print 
C) ​autochrome 
D) ​heliographic 
E) ​gelatin-silver

Question 13

The word photography is derived from Greek roots that mean __________ 

A) ​"the art of light." 
B) ​"to write with pictures." 
C) ​"to trick the eye." 
D) ​"to write with light." 
E) ​"to write with shapes."

Question 14

By the 1850s,photographic portrait studios became quite popular and began to serve the needs of __________.

A) ​the aristocracy 
B) ​famous novelists 
C) ​wealthy merchants 
D) ​a growing middle class 
E) ​famous actresses

Question 15

Higher quality digital cameras have __________ similar to film images.

A) ​reality 
B) ​photosensitivity 
C) ​resolution 
D) ​value 
E) ​contrast

Question 16

When a camera shutter opens for a few thousandths of a second over and over again in quick succession,__________ shots are being taken.

A) ​still 
B) ​resolution 
C) ​shutter 
D) ​panoramic 
E) ​candid

Question 17

The Artist's Studio,taken in 1837,was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.

A) ​Niepce 
B) ​Talbot 
C) ​Lumière 
D) ​Nadar 
E) ​Daguerre

Question 18

List four things that influence the nature of the artist-photographer's creative product.

Question 19

In both the camera and the __________,light enters a narrow opening and is projected onto a photosensitive surface.

A) ​shutter 
B) ​lens 
C) ​human eye 
D) ​aperture 
E) ​video

Question 20

Edward Steichen's __________,taken in 1906,is one of the foremost early examples of the photograph as a work of art.

A) ​Future Expectations 
B) ​Impression: Sunrise 
C) ​Blue Period 
D) ​The Flatiron Building-Evening 
E) ​Evening Nocturne

Question 21

Discuss some of the technological advances in computer graphics that have greatly expanded the horizons and achievements of artists.

Question 22

List and describe the four ways in which black-and-white films differ and a fifth way in which color films differ.

Question 23

What is a camera obscura,and how was it used by Renaissance artists?

Question 24

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography.

Question 25

Compare and contrast the musical films of the 1930s with the photographs of Dorothea Lange and other Depression-era photographers.

Question 26

Summarize three reasons for the lack of commercial and popular success of Matthew Brady's and Alexander Gardner's graphic Civil War scenes.Based on these reasons,formulate at least one other reason why there were few purchases of these works.

Question 27

What company replaced autochrome technology with a more advanced color film process in 1932?

Question 28

Discuss how and why the art of photography is far more than a mechanical process.

Question 29

What is one of the major keys to success for a photojournalist?

Question 30

Explain the process of producing a daguerreotype and the limitations and later refinements of this photographic medium.

Question 31

Explain why German director Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is considered one of the greatest yet most damaging propaganda films of all time.