CHAPTER 9 (PHOTOGRAPHY)

A

A(n) ________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script. A) auteur B) photojournalist C) videographer D) Dadaist

C

For what purpose was color photography first widely used? A) Photojournalism B) Portraiture C) Advertising D) Dada art

NO IDEA

HELP Identify the basic parts of a still camera. A) Lens B) Diaphragm C) Film D) Monitor E) Machinima

A

HELP What filmmaker and film is an example of the New Wave movement? A) Andy Warhol's Empire B) Bruce Nauman's Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) C) Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless D) Beryl Korot's Text and Commentary

A

In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light? A) Copper plate covered with silver iodine B) Rayogram C) Plate of glass D) Gelatin silver print

C

Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her ________. A) collages B) pop-art films C) portraits D) video art

C

Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event? A) World War I B) Animal motion C) The Great Depression D) Produce merchants

B

The creation of photographic body of work around an event, nplave, or culture is known as ________? A) Pictorialism B) Photojournalism C) Censorship D) Continuous-motion photography

D

The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style? A) Photojournalism B) Pure photography C) Pictorialism D) Dada

A

What 16th century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected? A) Lenses B) Daguerreotypes C) Celluloid film D) Dark rooms

C

During what time period did experiments with eh camera obscura first begin? A) Classical Greece B) Early twentieth century C) Italian Renaissance D) Industrial Revolution

D

Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre? A) Renaissance mosaics B) Screenprinting C) Rococo sculpture D) Painting

D

Man Ray created mysterious images, called ________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera to record them. A) substrata B) daguerreotypes C) Kodaks D) Rayograms

C

The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening? A) The emergence of television B) The racial aftermath of the American Civil War C) The horrors of World War I D) The dominance of machines in twentieth-century life

B

What are the Lumière brothers known for? A) Originating the concept of the auteur in filmmaking B) Inventing the first workable film projector C) Producing the first science fiction film D) Spearheading the New Wave film movement

A

What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography? A) A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way. B) A photograph's subject should reference photography itself. C) A photograph's meaning should refuse to make sense in traditional ways. D) A photograph should explore poetic effects.

C

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire? A) Epic battle scenes B) The daily life of the artist C) Passage of time D) Early space travel

B

What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype? A) A strict international patent B) The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image C) The invention of the motion picture D) The cost of silver

A

What feature of video appeals to many artists? A) Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor B) A short exposure rime of around thirty seconds C) The warm quality of celluloid oil D) Pixelation that allows for animating objects

A

What is the source material for Thomas Ruff's work, Substratum 12 III? A) Japanese manga B) Digital photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope C) Muybridge's series of animal movements D) Abstract patterns in textile weavings

D

What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography? A) Portability B) Colorization C) 3-D film D) Immediate development of the film

A

What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments? A) Motion B) The Great Depression C) World War I D) Light

C

________ is the supression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous. A) Dada B) Pictorialism C) Censorship D) Auteur

B

________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with Pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting. A) Gertrude Käsebier B) Alfred Stieglitz C) Julia Margaret Cameron D) Thomas Ruff