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When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, ______ image is formed. |
a negative |
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The ______ was an early form of camera. |
Camera obscura |
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The most important difference between the photographic process invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and the process devised by William Henry Fox Talbot was that Talbot’s images could be ______. |
easily reproduced |
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Because the camera appears to capture an image of an event exactly as it occurred, viewers often believe that the resulting photograph is ______ record of events. |
An absolutely accurate |
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Photographs were only recently collected by fine art museums because for a long time they were considered by some not to be ______. |
True forms of art |
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The earliest photographs were black and white because ______. |
color photography was impossible color processes were complicated color photography was impossible the chemistry used captured gray tones color was more expensive |
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What does the word "photograph" mean? |
Writing with light |
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The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________. |
A human eye |
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The first cameras were ________. |
Room-sized |
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The name of the opening that lets light into any camera is called ________. |
The aperture |
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When were the first successful photographs made using a camera? |
Early 1800s |
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Daguerreotypes are made on ________. |
Polished metal plates |
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A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________. |
It creates very detailed images |
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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________. |
Calotypes are negatives that can be easily reproduced |
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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange: |
Did not know the mother’s name |
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One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre featuring: |
Plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask by a window |
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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. |
Form…texture |
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In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________. |
Truthful |
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The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification. |
Iris patterns from the original photograph |
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What was the subject of the exhibition Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs? |
September 11, 2001 |
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When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums? |
1980s |
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In his photograph Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________. |
Painting |
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Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures. |
a. backgrounds b. proportion c. scale d. color |
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The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________. |
Passengers on a steam ship |
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What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous? |
Snapshot aesthetic |
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Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky intends his Manufacturing series to make viewers think about human actions leading to ________. |
Environmental impact |
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Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made. |
True |
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The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room, whether it is light or dark. |
False |
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Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective. |
False |
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Garry Winogrand frequently posed his subjects and set up his shots beforehand. |
False |
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Match the early photographic innovator with his invention: |
1. Calotype 2. Daguerrotype 3. Cyanotype |
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What still photographer’s experimentations with photography (and settling a bet) were instrumental in the development of motion pictures because he observed that sequential images were perceived as fluid movement. |
Eadweard Muybridge |
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How was the camera obscura first used? |
To draw images |
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As Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments with motion showed, ________. |
The camera can capture what the human eye can’t see |
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Videos, like those Bill Viola creates, are designed to be art are often made to be presented ________. |
a. on television screens b. in art galleries or at art events c. in such a way that they transform a space d. projected on walls |
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