quiz 10

When light-sensitive film is exposed to light, ______ image is formed.

negative

The ______ was an early form of camera.

camera obscura

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

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.

absolutely accurate

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

The earliest photographs were black and white because ______.

-color processes were complicated -color photography was impossible -the chemistry used captured gray tones -color was more expensive

What does the word "photograph" mean?

writing with light

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

a human eye

The first cameras were ________.

room-sized

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

the aperture

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

early 1800s

Daguerreotypes are made on ________.

polished metal plates

A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.

creates very detailed images

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

they are negatives that can easily be reproduced

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

first passed the pea-pickers camp but decided to turn around to take pictures

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

plaster cats, a framed picture, a wine flask, by a window

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 and texture

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

truthful

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

the iris pattern from the original photo

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

sep 11.2001

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

1980s

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

painting

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

a. backgrounds b. proportion c. scale d. color

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

passengers on a steam ship

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

snapshot aesthetic

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

environmental impacts

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

How was the camera obscura first used?

to draw images

As Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments with motion showed, ________.

the camera can capture what the human eye cannot see

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

William Henry Fox Talbot
Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre
John Herschel
-calotype

-daguerreotype

-cyanotype

William- calotype louis- daguerrotype John- cyanotype