History of Photography
Eugene Atget made "documents" of Paris compiling a visual compendium of the city including...
French cultural artifacts, window displays and their reflections, the environment and architecture
This pioneer of night photography custom-designed the first camera trap system that used a trip wire to activate a magnesium flash gun, that when tripped would make an exposure.
George Shiras
Along with painters, these groups embraced the new technology's ability to record with unparalleled exactitude whatever came before the lens.
explorers, scientists and archaelogoists.
This photography group believed the camera was able to see the world more clearly than the human eye, because it didn't project personal prejudices onto the subject.
f/64
In order to properly expose the dark tenements at night, Jacob Riis would use what to illuminate his sometimes sleeping subjects.
flashlight powder
"Gathering Waterlilies", by Peter Henry Emerson is a milestone in the history of photography because...
it is first photograph of nature ever produced as art from a negative
The photograph Death of a Loyalist Soldier is etched into the public's mind because...
its proliferation through magazines and newspapers
In order to make his subjects relax in front of the camera, this Philippe Halsman...
jumped in the air
Pictorialist photographers wanted to...
separate photography from its scientific history
When you were done shooting the first Kodak camera, you....
shipped it back to Kodak for processing.
In his photography of the colossal effigies fo Ramesses II, Maxine Du Camp included people to...
show a sense of scale.
Before Muybridge, cameras rarely had...
shutters.
The MET Museum describes this photographer's style as "a record the American scene with the nuance of a poet and the precision of a surgeon, creating an encyclopedia visual catalogue of modern America in the making."
Walker Evans
This photographer often arrived at the crime scene before the police because he kept a police monitor and office in his car.
Weegee
A tableaux vivant is....
a "living picture" using models and theatrical lighting.
Post mortem photography was a part of the death process that often occurred at home. Why were images made of deceased loved ones?
as a tangible object for the grieving family, as visual representation of mourning, and high mortality rates.
A permanent blue and white image based on the salts of iron is...
cyanotype.
Andre Kertesz used the visual language of modernism to create...
distortions and reflections to transform the body
Bellmer's photographs subverted the idea of a child's toys and innocence through his use of...
doll and doll parts
In his nudes, Edward Weston would often crop out the model's face. This was to...
enable to the images to be read as figure studies and not portraits
Weegee's photographic style produced tabloid newspaper photographs that...
gave the look and feel of an event the reader was NOT supposed to see.
This photographic process was introduced at the end of the 19th century and dominated black-and-white photography in the 20th century...
gelatin silver print
Charles Sheeler's 32 photographs of the Ford Plant in 1927-1928, depicted...
gleaming, massive machinery
In describing Edward Weston's photographs, which of the following applies...
he concentrated on subject and form
How did Daguerre feel about the dualistic nature of photography as a medium of artistic expression and as a powerful scientific tool?
he promoted both the art and science.
Joseph Nicephore Niepce's 8-hour exposure resulted in the first permanent direct positive picture — a one-of-a-kind photograph on pewter, called the...
heliograph.
Which of the following is NOT a part of Nadar's portrait making aesthetic?
highly ornate and complex backgrounds
Waldo Frank wrote that Alfred Stieglitz's secret power in his photography was...
his hypnotism over his sitters
Which technical advancement in the late 1800s had the greatest affect on photography and expanded the parameters of human vision?
increases in shutter speed
As defined by C. James Hughes in his writings, The Principles and Practice of Photography Familiarly Explained, art photography...
involves the artistic rearranging of objects for aesthetic purposes.
Because the image material sinks into the paper, salted paper prints have what kind of look...
less crisp.
Platinum printing came into photography to elevate it as a fine art. Which of these are qualities of the process...
matte finish prints, you can sometimes see the brushstrokes where the paper was coated with chemicals, looks more neutrally black and white.
Larry Burrows made photographs of the Vietnam War from the point of view...
of a photographer traveling and living with the troops
This African American daguerreotypes to operating in Connecticut, was deeply committed to the abolition of slavery and worked toward building a wealth of images in a community where it previously did not exist...
Augustus Washington
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy championed the "new vision" rooted in technological culture of the 20th century. He was an influential teacher and artist at the...
Bauhaus in Germany
This photographer, wishing photography to be considered an art, instead of just industry, established a studio whose students included Nadar, Maxime duCamp and Charles Negre.
Gustave Le Gray
This photograph approached the human form as she did organic plant life....
Imogen Cunningham
This photographer experienced first hand the degradation of living in the streets after he left Denmark and moved to New York.
Jacob Riis
Wes Anderson cites this photographer as one of his most influential and inspirational image makers...
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
The most significant event in the history of amateur photography was the introduction of...
Kodak's #1 camera
Erich Salomon is considered one of the first paparazzi, a term epitomized by Italy's aggressive photographers in Fellini's film...
La Dolce Vita
This photographer's use of color when making images of the Vietnam War added a layer of compelling reality.
Larry Burrows
This photographer used a large format camera and making photographs of newly arrived people from eastern and southern Europe on Ellis Island...
Lewis Hine
Which photographer asked his models to make eye contact with the camera so the viewer would have no choice but to make eye contact with them.
Lewis Hine
Daguerre had a partner with who he had worked on the problem of how to make a permanent image using light and chemistry, this gentleman was...
Nicephore Niepce
Working under Brady's name, this photographer brought back the first photographs of dead, bloated bodies during the Civil War.
Alexander Gardner
On the cover of LIFE, this photograph of a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on V-Day captured all the emotion Americans felt with the end of World War II. The photographer is...
Alfred Eisenstaedt
This pictorialist caused quite an uproar in the photographic communities by cropping his image after exposure, in the darkroom to recompose the final print.
Alfred Stieglitz
This photographer invented the Vortoscope, composed of mirrors, that allowed him to make entirely abstract images.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
This photographer brought his studio to his subjects, integrating their personalities with their surroundings, affirming the subject's position, occupation, and status to an audience unfamiliar with the subject.
Arnold Newman
This photographer was credited with popularizing a style of photography known as environmental portraiture.
Arnold Newman
An important figure in Modernism, this designer emphasized simplified geometric design as the basic structure of art.
Arthur Wesley Dow
A consummate photographer of the American West working in Yosemite and making "mammoth" large scale prints was...
Carleton Watkins
The first major conflict to be covered by newspaper reporters and photographers was...
Crimean War.
Which portfolio by Alfred Stieglitz continued his passion for the theme of the universe as a vital component of the self...
Equivalents
This photograph has become an emblem of the medium's unrivaled capacity to depict sudden death.
Death of a Loyalist Soldier, (The Falling Soldier), 1936
Photographer, Lee Freidlander, found this photographer's glass negatives in the 1970s and made prints on gold tone printing out paper, which were then mounted in an exhibition by the MOMA's John Szarkowski.
E.J. Bellocq
This photographer created a series of self-photographs, The Seven Last Words, depicting the seven last words of Christ.
F. Holland Day
The groundbreaking exhibition opening in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York where Edward Steichen was director of photography from 1947 to 1961.
Family of Man
This photographer formed a studio and provided extensive photographic documentation of the Civil War...
Matthew Brady.
This photographic movement grew as a reaction to scientific empiricism...
Transcendentalism
...patented the Calotype process in 1841. It is the direct ancestor of modern photography because it used a negative permitting multiple positive prints to be made from the negative and development of the latent image.
William Henry Fox Talbot
This photographer's image of Old Faithful in Eruption was instrumental in Yellowstone's development as a tourist attraction and ultimately the first National Park.
William Henry Jackson
The Crewe Circle was a group of photographers specializing in spirit photography organized by...
William Hope
O'Sullivan's photographs...
were descriptive images for the survey, exaggerated remoteness of locations to suggest vast expanse, and portrayed physical and emotional experience of being at these sites.
The term "snapshot"...
adapted from hunting term, meaning to shoot instinctively without taking aim
In Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840, Hippolytus Bayard's strangely dark hands show...
his lament over Daguerre's fame and fortune, a testament to chemistry and hard work, and the hopeless plight of the sitter.
Double exposure, combination printing, montage, and solaris action were all photographic techniques associated with...
Surrealism
Fenton's financial backers considered photographs...
propaganda.
This artist movement saw the forces of reason as blocks to accessing the imagination and set about tapping the creative powers of the unconscious...
Surrealism
This Western photographer used the Sierra Nevada mountains as her location for her images of tough, rugged women portrayed as archetypes.
Anne Brigman
The photographer who fundamentally changed how we think about photography with his images of sequential photographs of men walking, or horses at gallop is....
Eadweard Muybridge
Henry Luce's mission for ___ magazine was rooted in the magic and power of the written word.
TIME
Henry Peach Robinson's "Fading Away" also stirred up controversy, why?
a young girl on her death bed was considered to morbid for photography.
Early photographic emulsion was most sensitive to which colors of the spectrum?
blue and violet.
Why was John Whipple's photograph of the moon so important?
brought together science and art.
In 1862, ____ was invented, and the increased size showed more details and made the photograph a public display.
cabinet picture
The photographic process that made duplication of the photograph possible is...
calotypes.
For over a century, artists have made use of the...optical device to superimpose a live view of their subject onto their drawing or painting surface.
camera lucida
The invention of the calotype is in some part due Talbot's frustration with his drawing aid known as the ____ a small wooden box with a lens at one end that projected the scene before it onto a piece of frosted glass at the back, where the artist could trace the outlines on thin paper.
camera obscura.
The term was first used in 1604 for a constructed device that is essentially a box with a hole in it is called...
camera obscura.
For Jacques-Henri Lartigue, photography was about...
capturing the peak moment of action
The physical demands of making photographs in Yosemite in the 1860s included...
carrying 2,000 lbs of equipment, the darkroom and chemicals had to be close to the subject, and working with a large format camera.
The movement which emphasizes form over content, the belief that pure forms could transcend differences implicit in content and become as important as subject matter is known as...
aesthetic formalism
A collodion negative backed with a black cloth that resulted in a positive was called...
ambrotypes
Alfred Stieglitz photographed his wife Georgia O'Keeffe as a part of a 10-year collaboration.
an undeniable strength
Cyanotypes became popular at the end of the 19th century in what field?
architecture as blueprints.
In the 1400s during the Italian Renaissance, devised a new way to draw in which objects were foreshortened as they recorded into space and lines converged into a vanishing point. This was called...
linear perspective system.
Smearing the lens and kicking the tripod during exposure were two methods photographers used to...
make a photograph have less detail and look more painterly.
In the George Eastman House video, you are shown the daguerreotype process. Which step of the process "dances across the plate" to reveal the image?
mercury
When it comes to color photography, glass plates, a backlight, soot and _______ revolutionized photography.
potatoe starch
"The ability to anticipate a finished image before making the exposure" is called...
pre-visualization.
In the George Eastman House video, the term "fixing" is introduced. How is "fixing" a part of the process?
prevents the plate from changing anymore as light strikes the plate.
Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes' portraits...
pushed past the stereotypical poses and demonstrated by portrait could be more than a topographical map of the face.
Eddie Adams calls Saigon Execution, 1968, what kind of photograph?
reflex picture
Patented by Hamilton L. Smith in 1856, advantages of the tintype include...
relaxing studio experience, lower price and immediacy
As government censorship prevented photographs of Allied dead or secretive missions before 1943, the country relied on picture magazines to...
stay abreast of international events
Frederick Evan's' photographic meditation on medieval cathedrals in England and France is important because these images...
stress the beauty of fine materials and spiritual importance of pre-industrial life.
Small photographs made as visiting cards that allowed the subject to use props to show the viewer more personal expression including what they liked to do and who they were are called...
carte de visite
O'Sullivan's photographs included purposeful manipulations made in the camera while working with Clarence King, U.S. Geologist. His photographs reflect King's theory of....
catastrophism
Timothy O'Sullivans photographic style could be described as...
challenging the expectations of a what a straight recording of reality should look like.
The "putting together" of lines, masses and colors to make a harmony is called...
composition
In photography, the arrangement or structure of the formal elements that make up an image is referred to as...
composition.
A glass negative can be used to make 1000's of reproductions called...
contact prints
Botanist Anna Atkins developed an interest in photography as a means of a recording botanical specimens for a scientific reference book, British Algae, and the process she used was called...
cyanotype.
O'Sullivan's photographs were a departure from representing the landscape ONLY as a place of sublime salvation. How did his distinctive Eastern point-of-view influence his image making?
his photographs showed a sublime quality that was also terrifying and demanding.
Muybridge presented his photographs in a manner that challenged the way the viewer regarded photographs. This was...
in a sequential grid.
O'Sullivan was hired by the U.S. Geological Survey to make photographs that...
intended to highlight areas of geologic interest.
Why was the International Exhibition of American Art at the Armory in New York so important to photography?
introduced post impressionist and cubist art beside photography
"Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter" is important for which reason...
it raised questions about the photographic idea of truth.
Albumen prints possessed all of those characteristics BUT one...
it was not easy to reproduce.
The ability to vary focal length allow the production of different image sizes based on the specific needs of portrait and landscape artists. Image size is controlled by the...
lens focal length.
Using a glass jar filled with chalk, nitric acid and silver, and placing a barrier around its, Johann Heinrich Schulze proves that the darkened or "exposed" parts of the chalk in the jar were created by ___ and not heat.
light
This professor of engineering at MIT, pioneered techniques of ultra-high-seed stroboscopic photography to reveal aspects of the moving world previously invisible to the naked eye.
Harold Edgerton
This photographer's images are an objective record of how things were in New York's neighborhoods in the 1940s.
Helen Levitt
This photojournalist who worked with images work with the full frame aesthetic — a scene is completely visualized at the time of the exposure, and was a founding member of Magnum Photo Agency.
Henri Cartier Bresson
The photographic process through which a partially developed negative or print is briefly exposed to white light, some of the tone values are reversed. Dark areas appear light and light areas appear dark.
Sabattier effect
Why is no one smiling in a daguerreotype portrait?
The long exposure time and metal bar to hold head in place.
Camera-less images that are unique, unrepeatable, and to a degree uncontrollable are called...
photograms
Thomas Wedgewood contributes to the beginnings of photography by brushing silver nitrate onto sheets of paper, using objects upon the paper and exposing this light. He was creating...
photograms.
Lewis Hine's photographs of documented abuses of children in the workplace resulted in...
the passage of protective legislation
Physiognomy is the study of...
a person's mental state manifested in their facial features.
Photography has always had a somewhat strained relationship with painting, including questions about whether photography was an art. In what year did photographs and paintings hang side by side in an exhibition in Manchester?
1857
What year brought refinements in lens designs solved basic lens aberrations, especially that of astigmatism, which causes an object in image to blur around the edges?
1866
Roger Fenton made how many exposures of the battlefield in "Valley of Death"?
2
This photographer used the term "poetic rest stops" to describe how he used shutter speed to capture one moment from the flow of time.
Andre Kertesz
The carte de visite was patented in 1854 by...
Andre-Adolfo-Eugene Disderi
This Civil War photographer was also an infantryman responsible for documenting engineering feats as well as the battlefields...
Andrew J. Russell
This photographer's images inspired President Lincoln to sign a bill in 1864 declaring the Yosemite Valley inviolate and initiating the blueprint for the nation's National Park System.
Carleton Watkins
Using the wax paper process, which photographer used photography as an artistic medium to focus on the ordinary working people of Paris...
Charles Negre
Which member of the Societe Heliographique, was assigned to document architectural motifs and sculpture of the Louvre new facade...
Edouard Baldus
This photographer made images of Native Americans that combined a white European point of view with a soft, pictorial effect to create the idea of the noble savage.
Edward Curtis
Along with curating the exhibition "The Family of Man", this photographer made fashion photographs from Vanity Fair and Vogue.
Edward Steichen
Photo-Secessionist held their exhibitions in a gallery on Fifth Avenue in NYC, Gallery 291. Who donated this space and published the quarterly magazine Camera Work...
Edward Steichen
...puts the bromide and the silver into the same solution, resulting in gelatin silver prints.
Emulsion photography
This original "candid camera" photographer was famous for his ability to gain entrance to events involving dignitaries and members of high society as well as inside of a courtroom...
Erich Salomon
The MET has called this photographer's sensibilities that of an "urban primitive".
Eugene Atget
These Missions Heliographiques photographers intended to document the preservation and restoration of work required at historic sites throughout...
France.
This photographer used the wet-plate collodion and albumen prints processes, boasting a stock of one million images sold.
Francis Frith
This photographer believed firmly that only a good negative would yield the perfect print, and eschewed retouching for solving compositional mistakes.
Frederick H. Evans
In 1851, which photographer developed the wet plate collodion process that a reproducible highly detailed negative...
Frederick Scott Archer.
This book, published in 1890, is in landmark in American social reform and was one of the earliest to employ halftone reproduction successfully.
How the Other Half Lives
One of the first photographers of the 20th century to transform snapshots in art by using "commonplace details of the snapshot" frozen in a moment...
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
This photographer's photographic style was one of formal studio control with simplified compositions, doing away with cluttered paraphernalia and the theatrical lighting of the previous generation of fashion photographers.
Irving Penn
The rationalization for the western expansion of American civilization is called...
Manifest Destiny
This photographers photographs documented the work of Mexican mural painters including Diego Rivera, and were published in the journal Mexican Folkways.
Manual Alvarez Bravo
The first cover of LIFE magazine featured the work which photographer?
Margaret Bourke-White
Abraham Lincoln credited his Cooper Union speech and the portrait or "crate" made by this photographer for his election to the presidency.
Matthew Brady
The public was making photo albums of their family and the leaders of the day. A primary source for those photographs was...
Matthew Brady
Which photographer earned this high praise from Malcolm Daniel, Department of Photographs, at the MET, "his seductive energy, his jokes and stories, all served his photography, which he understood to be a private theater of personality?"
Nadar
The photographer's studio was a celebration of the strange and marvelous, satisfying his celebrity and theatrical clients, called a wunderkammer.
Napoleon Sarony
When this magazine published its first wildlife photos, two of the Society board members resigned in disgust arguing that the magazine was "turning into a 'picture book'".
National Geographic
Which photographer's specialty was the tableau vivant, photographs based on carefully staged, costumed and posed scenes meant to convey a specific message?
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
This photograph consists of more than 30 negatives.
Oscar Gustave Rejlander, "Two Ways of Life"
This photographer made abstract images of porch shadows and tipped over tables, one of the first artists to work so intentionally.
Paul Strand
How did the daguerreotype make a huge impact on portraiture?
People could start to develop a visual history, not only the rich could afford to have a portrait made, and people could collect images of their friends and family.
While the war was still raging on, this photographer published a book "Vietnam Inc.", that helped turned public opinion against the war.
Philip Jones Griffiths
After editorial disagreements, Stieglitz and several like-minded photographers broke away from the group in 1902 to form the...
Photo-Seccessionist
After setting up a daguerreotype studio on the American side of Niagara Falls, who made some of the first vacation photographs?
Platt Babbit
Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs show inspiration from which style of painting?
Pre-Raphaelites
This photographer began a series of images in 2004 called "Democracy" as a way to understand American politics at the time. The last of the 49 portraits was Barack Obama.
Richard Avedon
This photographer's controversial and provocative pictures challenged the traditional photography of his time, and helped turn photography into an expressive art form.
Richard Avedon
The Farm Security Administration hired this photographer to showcase the Resettlement Administration's work in American rural life documenting the poverty following the depression.
Roy Styker
Philippe Halsman collaborated with this artist for over 37 years, directing him in elaborate scenes that surround the artist, including original work, a floating chair and an in-progress easel suspended by thin wires.
Salvador Dali
The hypo fix that made images permanent was invented by...
Sir John Herschel
The first book to be photographically illustrated was...
The Pencil of Nature
"Two Ways of Life" provoked controversy and debate. Which of these were issues raised by this photographic composite?
The idea that works of high art could be made with mechanical assistance; the ethics of combining negatives to make a reality that didn't previously exist; whether nudity was acceptable in photography, as it was in painting.
Artworks often reflect situations and events present during the time periods they are created.
True
August Sander's approach to making portraits can be described as...
a straightforward sociological study of the German people
The methods of sensitometry and densitometry, brought quantitative scientific practice to photography. They were developed by...
Vero Charles Driffield and Ferdinand Hurter
This photographer recorded the urban renewal projects in Glasgow and helped establish a documentary style.
Thomas Annan
Which photographer began their career working with Alexander Gardner photographing the Civil War?
Timothy O'Sullivan
Which of the following are Principles of Art that apply to photography?
Variety, Emphasis, Balance, Movement and Unity
In Country Doctor, this photographer used photographs to convey a sense of who Dr. Ceriani was without any editorializing text. Readers were led through the sequence of images strictly from the photographer's point of view.
W. Eugene Smith
Some of the most notable photographs of WWII were made on assignment for Ziff-Davis and LIFE magazine, the photographer was...
W. Eugene Smith
In his TED talk, David Griffin talks about what new part of the magazine that is a hit with the enthusiast photographic community.
Your Shot
In photography, a "symbol" is...
a form, sign, or emblem that represents something else, such as an idea or emotion.
Richard Avedon's photographic style could be described as...
a neutral background where models were transformed into floating beings
With this process a latent image is produced after the material (such as photographic paper) is exposed to "a little bit of light". The resulting image becomes visible after the exposed material is put into a liquid with specific chemicals that bring out the image.
developing out
Julie Margaret Cameron's portraits photographs often have soft focus. How did she achieve this effect?
did not screw the lens all the way onto the camera.
The Calotype negative, invented in 1840, introduces the ____ potential for photography.
negative/positive
Many of the earliest photographs were manipulated to compensate for the camera's technical limitations such as...
overexposed skies due to emulsion sensitivity.
In the early 1900s, which of the following societal changes affected how and why photographs were made?
population growth from rural to urban areas, increased speed of technological growth, machine revolution
Early photographs were primarily of...
portraits
The most common subject of daguerreotypes was...
portraits.
Talbot was able to make negatives and after fixing them with hypo, was able to use a second sheet of paper exposed to light to make a...
positive proof.
The 1880s kept the improvements coming! When glass negatives were replaced with celluloid negatives...
people's perception of the world changed! ; photographers could work in the field without their darkrooms ; there were breakthroughs in stop action
Using silver chloride, silver nitrate and coating the paper with salt, William Henry Fox Talbot was able to make...
photogenic drawings.
In the early 1850s, this new technology began to bypass the daguerreotype — what process had the advantages of multiple prints that could be made from a single negative?
photographs on paper.
Younger artists working in the late 1890s were disenchanted with the exhibition rules and practices of Western art society. This led to the rise of...
photography clubs
After World War I, photography changed and the attempts to make the photograph "more painterly" by heavily manipulating the final print fell out of favor. The reasons for this include...
photography was naturally suited to documenting face paced modern life.
The process for reproducing a photograph in large editions and uses gelatin to transfer the image from a black and white negative to a copper printing plate is called...
photogravures
What does it mean that Kodak's camera acted as a democratic collector of memories?
photos became visual diaries
The emphasis on the expressive abilities of the individual photographer and the break between sciences and art defines which movement?
pictorialism
Aleksandr Rodchenko's photographic compositions were mainly concerned with...
placement and movement of objects in space
Talbot's photogenic drawing process, having been fixed with hypo is called...
salted paper print.
Robert Capa's images of the Spanish Civil War were made possible by...
smaller cameras and faster film
The aesthetic qualities of the Calotype include...
softness of line, limited tonal range and atmospheric effects.
Photographers were sent to the battle lines to feed the demand for...
souvenirs of dashing uniformed men.
Photographic manipulation during the Pictorialism was popular because artists wanted to reconcile the camera's factuality with...
staging and multiple exposures.
Dry collodion plates required 6x the amount of exposure than wet collodion, making dry plates only suitable for...
static objects
Which of following is true about the rise of the snapshot?
subject matter became more democratic and prolific since image making was less expensive; snapshots were now possible due to increased film sensitivity; snapshots were now possible due to increased shutter speed
Which of the following helped bring about the Golden Age of American Newspapers?
telephotography; photographs were more effective than words; synchronized flash
Roger Fenton's photographs of the Crimean War were unique in what way...
the backers for the photographic expedition did not want photographs of dead bodies.
Lewis Hine devoted his life to exposing the dangerous working condition of child labor, going so far as to dress up in order to gain entrance to the factory. His disguises included all but which of the following?
the company's foreman's wife
The magical instant when the world falls in apparent order and meaning, and may be apprehended by a gifted photographer is called...
the decisive moment
After the Civil War, in the early 1900s, child labor soared as a result of...
the demand for cheap labor, low wages that required all family members to work, and the industrial boom.
Jose Manuel Susperregui, a communications professor at the Universidad del Pais Vasco, believes that the Death of a Loyalist Solider is staged. His evidence asserts...
the image was made in a town 35 miles away from the battlefield
Edward Weston believed...
the photographer must determine how he wants the finished print to look before he exposes the negative.
One of the major challenges in photographing in the Civil War was...
the photographic process could not stop motion.
The term "vantage point" refers to...
the physical spot or position from where a photograph is taken.
The Hague, gelatin silver print, 1930, photography by Erich Salomon, is considered one of Time's top 100 most iconic images because...
the public could see behind the doors of power and see their world leaders
Time magazine names "The Hague, gelatin silver print, 1930" as one of its Top 100 Photographs of all time because...
the public could see the powerful world leaders with their guard down
LIFE magazine readers were led through the sequence of images strictly from the photographer's point of view using which photographic method?
the relationships of each image to the next; combination of image and text; a photo essay
Carleton Watkin's photographs commitment to American landscape photography was rooted in...
the richness of detaisl
Julia Margaret Cameron defined portraiture as...
the sitter's character revealed through high art.
The calotype photographs of Henri le Secq were important because...
the strong formal composition showed the visual order of the cathedrals.
The Storyville Portraits are unique in their depiction of the Red Light district prostitutes, why...
there are no sexual acts recorded, some of the women are photographed fully clothed, and the photographs are informal and modest in their approach.
A silhouette and a physionotrace that made them different from portrait paintings was...
they were mechanical.
During the Civil War, soldiers would send pictures home. These images were made with this democratic process...
tintype
Wet collodion process allowed you to expose a positive on metal called a...
tintype
Which of the following is a characteristic of the daguerreotype?
unique, one-of-a-kind
Abelard Morell builds camera obscura's in NYC using black plastic, duct tape, and a lens taped to the glass. The view is...a basic tenet of optics.
upside down
While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, Jacob Riis, did a series of exposes on slum conditions on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this led him to...
view photography as a way of communicating the need for slum reform.
Muybridge' s "A Horse in Motion", stop motion technique...
was an early form of animation, influential to the motion picture industry, and was imperceptible to the naked eye but apparent through photography.
The war photographers worked with this process...
wet plate collodion.
California governor Leland Stanford commissioned Muybridge to provide proof that...
when a horse gallops, it does become fully airborne.
A practical substitute for albumen silver prints in book publication that could be printed quickly, economically, and resisted fading was called a...
woodburytype
Dry plates were revolutionary because...
you can expose your glass plates in the field and develop them weeks later in your home darkroom.
Platinum printing is a contact printing process. This means...
you have to produce the negative to be the size you want the final print to be.
A challenge to using the collodion process when traveling is...
you pour the collodion on the plate and have to make the exposure while it is wet.