A-S 280 Quizzes

Which of the following is an element of narrative structure?

All of these

Which of the following is an element that contemporary narrative photography borrows from film?

All of these

Who is a flaneur?

All of these

How do we characterize documentary photography?

All of these.

What is the name of the journal first published by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903?

Camera Work

What photographic cooperative--that is still active today--was founded in 1947 by a group of notable photographers loosely based around Paris in the aftermath of World War II?

Magnum Photos

What mathematical and photographic rule both describes how all of the natural world is organized and helps photographers organize their composition?

The golden spiral

Which of the following describes a type of movement captured by photography?

All of these

What do photojournalists generally document?

All of these.

What shooting variables do you have control over when you're shooting in Manual Mode?

All of these.

How do we categorize Conceptual Photography?

Both of these

Which of the following was a notable convention of "Serious" or "Art" photography prior to the 1960s?

It was not shot in color.

Who published the book How the Other Half Lives, becoming a famous documentarian in the process?

Jacob Riis

What camera, that forever changed photography, did George Eastman invent?

Kodak

What technology was invented around 1900 that allowed photographs to be reproduced in newspapers?

Photomechanical reproduction

In what decade did Europe's earliest portrait studios open?

1840s

What is the term for the philosophy of beauty?

Aesthetics

Who was the American photographer who started the Pictorialist movement in the early 20th C?

Alfred Stieglitz

Who was the 11th Century Arab mathematician who recorded experiments with optics that led to the development of the camera obscura?

Alhazen

Throughout the history of photography, how have portrait photographers have used portraits?

All of these

Which of the following characterized social documentary photography at the beginning of the 20th Century?

All of these

Who was the American photographer--famous for his 20th Century landscape images of the American West---whose work represents "pure photography?"

Ansel Adams

What does perspective mean in photography?

Both of these

Which of the following is a "type" of portraiture?

Both of these

Which of these is a definition of Modernism in art?

Both of these

What is the term for the placement or arrangements of visual elements within a work of art?

Composition

What is the term, in photography, that describes changes in tones or values and/or differences in colors?

Contrast

Camera Obscura is a Latin phrase meaning____________________________.

Darkened room

What is the term that describes the amount of the image that's in focus?

Depth of field

What do we refer to as the relationship between shapes and the background in an image?

Figure/Ground relationship

The Decisive Moment was the seminal survey of which photographer's work?

Henry Cartier-Bresson

Which modernist photographer became noted as one of the first to pose his subjects against a simple white or grey background---eliminating any background information or context?

Irving Penn

Which British photographer--who eventually became known for portraits of contemporary celebrities--used soft focus and painterly effects to make their photographs expressive?

Julia Margaret Cameron

Who was a student of the Bauhaus who argued for the "objective vision" of the artist?

Laszlo Moholy Nagy

Which photographer became famous in the 1970s for evolving an influential visual language of urban "social landscape?"

Lee Friedlander

Who was the 19th Century French scientist who first captured a photographic image by coating a copper plate with a light-sensitive silver iodide solution?

Louis Daguerre

Who was the American photographer and theorist most responsible for opening up the evocative and metaphorical possibilities of photography after the 1940s?

Minor White

What approach to photography, which called for sharp focus and unvarnished style and a way of taking pictures true to the qualities of the medium itself--free of embellishment, did Alfred Stieglitz advocate for by 1917?

Purism

Which modernist photographer was famous for his series The American West (1979) in addition to a huge fashion and celebrity portfolio?

Richard Avedon

Which photographer famously captured the Allied landing at Normandy on D-Day?

Robert Capa

Who published The Americans as a direct challenge to Edward Steichen and modernist documentary practice and ideology?

Robert Frank

Which photographer was born in Hazard, KY and is known for his portraits of Appalachian life?

Shelby Lee Adams

What does the term SLR stands for when referencing camera types?

Single lens reflex

In the 1920s and 1930s, what was considered a new approach to photographing human subjects that didn't exploit them, but instead allowed for individual expression, human qualities, and idiosyncrasies in a natural and tender way?

The Documentary Style

What was the name of the seminal 1955 photography exhibition at MOMA, curated by Ed Steichen and meant to document the universality of human experience and "the gamut of life from birth to death?"

The Family of Man

What is the name given to a group of artists that includes Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Laurie Simmons that had a seminal 2009 show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art?

The Pictures Generation

German critic Walter Benjamin discussed "the optic unconscious" in what seminal 1936 book?

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

What became a popular studio portrait convention in the 1940s and 1950s as Henry Luce popularized the personal profile in Life magazine?

The headshot

What "rule" in photography relies on an imaginary, even grid to compose an image?

The rule of thirds

Which contemporary German photographer is known for creating composite portraits?

Thomas Ruff