Arts 1301- Chapter 9

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For what purpose was color photography first widely used?

Advertising

________ 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.

Alfred Steiglitz

In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?

Copper plate covered with silver iodine

What are the Lumière brothers known for?

Inventing the first workable film projector

During what time period did experiments with the camera obscura first begin?

Italian Renaissance

What is the source material for Thomas RuJapanese manga ff's work, Substratum 12 III?

Japanese manga

Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre?

Painting

What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?

Passage of time

What feature of video appeals to many artists?

Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.

The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as ________.

photojournalism

Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her ________.

portraits

What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?

Lenses

What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments?

Motion

What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?

Portability

What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?

A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.

________ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.

Censorship

The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?

Dada

Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event?

The Great Depression

The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening?

The horrors of World War I

What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?

The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image


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