Question 1

What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?

Accepted Answer

A)   studio style
B)   snapshot aesthetic
C)   photomontage
D)   digital manipulation
E)   quick-capture

Question 2

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
-Dorothea Lange

Accepted Answer

A)  photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
B)  makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
C)  known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
D)  worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
E)  used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the USF) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

Question 3

Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Realism
B)   Cubism
C)   Dada
D)   Futurism
E)   Romanticism

Question 4

When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

Accepted Answer

A)   1300s
B)   1500s
C)   1600-1750
D)   early 1800s
E)   1900-50

Question 5

Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 6

The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   passengers on a steam ship
B)   child laborers
C)   a mother and her children
D)   new machinery
E)   World War I A

Question 7

Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.

Accepted Answer

A)   backgrounds
B)   proportion
C)   scale
D)   color
E)   all of the other answers

Question 8

When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange:

Accepted Answer

A)   waited all day for the woman and her family to return to their camp
B)   first passed the pea-pickers' camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures
C)   refused to let the prints be published
D)   used actors in a studio pretending to be migrants
E)   none of the other answers

Question 9

Match the photographic term with its definition:
-subject

Accepted Answer

A)  image that reverses the tones of light and dark
B)  using photographs to tell a news story
C)  a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
D)  image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
E)  photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendlyF) the person,place, or thing photographed

Question 10

Stephen Marc's Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad explores African-American history,but the photograph itself displays none of the principles of art,such as rhythm or variety.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky intends his Manufacturing series to make viewers think about human actions leading to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   famine
B)   war
C)   an impact on the environment
D)   protests
E)   none of the other answers

Question 12

Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
-Sally Mann

Accepted Answer

A)  photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
B)  makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
C)  known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
D)  worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
E)  used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the USF) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

Question 14

One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre,featuring:

Accepted Answer

A)   words, pictures, and tree bark, on a table
B)   grapes, sculptures, and a mirror, in a bowl
C)   plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window
D)   books, flowers, and a water jar, in a library
E)   vegetables, musical instruments, and plates, on a shelf

Question 15

A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   it creates very detailed images
B)   calotypes can be made very quickly
C)   it records color
D)   calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
E)   it can photograph in the dark D

Question 16

Match the photographic term with its definition:
-Caffenol

Accepted Answer

A)  image that reverses the tones of light and dark
B)  using photographs to tell a news story
C)  a collage made of photo-based images and text, usually photographed or scanned so it can be reproduced
D)  image that matches the appearance as the human eye would see it
E)  photographic process that replaces highly toxic developer to make darkroom chemistry more environmentally friendlyF) the person,place, or thing photographed

Question 17

Match the photographer with a description of his or her work:
-Julia Margaret Cameron

Accepted Answer

A)  photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
B)  makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
C)  known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
D)  worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
E)  used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the USF) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

Question 18

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:

Accepted Answer

A)   the work of two different photographers
B)   sculpture and photography
C)   images from the past and present
D)   images of trains and airplanes
E)   none of the other answers

Question 20

Landscape photographs,such as those taken by Ansel Adams,help raise awareness about:

Accepted Answer

A)   road safety and traffic rules for travelers
B)   historical events on East Coast battlefields
C)   how to find the best apple trees at Baxter Farms
D)   nature's grandeur and the wilderness of the American West
E)   how to find water in the desert

Exam 18: Photography

What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?

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Match the photographer with a description of his or her work: -Dorothea Lange

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Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.

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When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?

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Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

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The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.

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Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.

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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange:

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Match the photographic term with its definition: -subject

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Stephen Marc's Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad explores African-American history,but the photograph itself displays none of the principles of art,such as rhythm or variety.

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Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky intends his Manufacturing series to make viewers think about human actions leading to ________.

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Images in a camera obscura can be recorded mechanically or chemically.

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Match the photographer with a description of his or her work: -Sally Mann

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One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre,featuring:

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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.

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Match the photographic term with its definition: -Caffenol

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Match the photographer with a description of his or her work: -Julia Margaret Cameron

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Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine went undercover in factories and mines to expose the injustices of child labor.

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Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:

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Landscape photographs,such as those taken by Ansel Adams,help raise awareness about:

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