Hutchinson Community College - FALL 2020 - (ONLINE) Art Appreciation - AR101 816201S - CHAPTER 9 -
A purpose of photography is to bear witness and document, and photojournalism allowed the
public to see a story, not just an individual illustration of an event.
In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?
Copper plate covered with silver iodine
What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?
Lenses. The development of lenses during the sixteenth century helped the camera obscura to focus the image it projected.
What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?
Passage of time, which challenge our idea that something will "happen." Empire, Warhol said, was a way of watching time pass.
What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?
Portability: With his Kodak camera, George Eastman introduced a camera that was lightweight and portable. The Kodak and cameras like it opened photography up to amateurs, and it quickly became a popular hobby.
What feature of video appeals to many artists?
Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.
Daguerre made a breakthrough for photography by recording an image that was clear and sharp and could be duplicated easily. His light-sensitive surface was a
copper plate coated with silver iodide, and he named his invention the daguerreotype.
What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?
A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.
The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?
Dada. Höch belonged to the Dadaist movement, which was formed as a reaction to the unprecedented slaughter of World War I. Her collage work embodies the Dadaist ideals of collecting and exhibiting found art.
What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?
The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image: the daguerreotype's image produced a positive image, which is unique and cannot be reproduced since the plate is the photograph.
Adherents of pure or straight photography believed that for photography to be an art, it must be true to its own nature and not try to be painterly.
The style avoided cropping or other manipulations to images.
Censorship is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.
This involves someone who supervises morality and appropriate conduct, or examines material, such as books or artworks, for objectionable substance. It occurs when groups or individuals suppress words or pictures they find offensive, indecent, or dangerous.
The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as
photojournalism.
Artists took quickly to video because of its immediate results in capturing an image (including instantaneous display on an external monitor) and
the ability to manipulate video signals to effect interesting artistic outcomes.
