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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was unusual about “rayographs”?
The film was double exposed.
The subjects did not know they were being photographed.
The photographs were always exhibited.
No camera or lens was used.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was the drawback to the camera obscura?
It was expensive to purchase.
It could not preserve or copy an image.
It needed several people to operate.
It was hard to focus.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which contemporary photographer’s work comes closest to the function of documentary photography?
Trevor Paglen
Susan Derges
Jane and Louise Wilson
Binh Danh
- 4. Multiple Choice
What distinguishes Jeff Wall’s Boy Falls from Tree as an example of photography used as an art form?
the uniqueness of digital prints
the intensity of the color palette
the moralizing subject matter
the large format
- 5. Multiple Choice
What strategy helped Alfred Stieglitz promote photography as a legitimate art form in the early twentieth century?
He exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Modern Art.
He manipulated his photographs to imitate popular styles in painting.
He made portraits of famous actors and actresses.
He included essays on modern art in Camera Work.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What technical element accounts for the visible details seen throughout Jane and Louise Wilson’s photograph?
the mist released before shooting the photograph
the photograph’s exposure time
the digital processing
the 6-foot-square format
- 7. Multiple Choice
What do these two contemporary photographs have in common?
underlying social commentary
photo essays
interest in the natural landscape
experimentation with photographic processes
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which contemporary photographer uses a process called chlorophyll printing?
Trevor Paglen
Susan Derges
Binh Danh
James Welling
- 9. Multiple Choice
How did Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s process differ from that of the early camera obscura?
It required the use of mirrors to set the image right-side-up.
It was unable to show stationary figures and inanimate objects.
It was made using a metal plate on which the image was fixed.
It allowed the photographer to work indoors or in low light.
- 10. Multiple Choice
How does James Welling increase viewer knowledge about his works like 9812 when they are exhibited?
He does demonstrations of his process.
He holds workshops.
He includes explanatory videos.
He makes booklets available so they can understand the process.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does the f-stop determine?
depth of field
focal length
development time
shutter speed
- 12. Multiple Choice
What was one reason that Ansel Adams photographed Yosemite?
to raise environmental awareness
to attract investors for park camping
to increase tourism
he was on vacation
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why has photography been useful in influencing social change?
It appeals more to popular audiences than traditional paintings or sculpture.
It cannot be manipulated to create a false account of an event.
It suggests a living witness to social injustice or concerns.
It offers an objective account of an event without personal bias.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which factor contributed most to the acceptance of color photography among art photographers?
the development of less toxic technologies in the late nineteenth century
the invention of positive color transparencies in 1907
the use of color in family snapshots and tourist photographs in the 1960s
the exhibition of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976
- 15. Multiple Choice
What was the social impact of Jacob Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives?
Many poor immigrants were deported from the city.
Money raised by sales of the photographs was donated to poor families.
Factories were forced to provide housing for their workers.
Laws were passed to improve conditions for the poor.
- 16. Multiple Choice
One of the first great portrait photographers was
Ansel Adams.
Julia Margaret Cameron.
Jeff Wall.
Man Ray.
- 17. Multiple Choice
What was the significance of Eastman Kodak’s 1937 invention of Kodachrome film?
It allowed photographers to make color photographs for the first time.
It improved the accuracy of color photography.
It caused color photography to be accepted by artists.
It eliminated fading in color photographs.
- 18. Multiple Choice
This image demonstrates Alfred Stieglitz’s mastery of
tonal control.
objectively documenting the landscape.
digital manipulation of the image.
combining multiple negatives.
- 19. Multiple Choice
What was one reason professional photographers disdained color photography for so long?
Color photography was associated with family snapshots.
Color photographs required different camera equipment.
Color film was very expensive.
Color photographs could not be enlarged.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Today’s smartphone cameras do not automatically set
shutter speed.
focal length.
development time.
aperture.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which Renaissance artist described the uses of the camera obscura?
titian
raphael
michelangelo
leonardo da vinci
- 22. Multiple Choice
How does color function in William Eggleston’s Untitled (Nehi Bottle on Car Hood)?
It suggests symbolic meaning.
It adds to the play of formal elements.
It adds critical commentary.
It heightens the realistic illusionism.
- 23. Multiple Choice
How did photographers compensate for longer shutter settings if they wanted to avoid blurry pictures with handheld cameras?
They changed to faster film.
They used a camera stand.
They changed the focal length.
They changed the f-stop.
- 24. Multiple Choice
What does adjusting the focal length accomplish?
It determines how far the photographer stands from the subject.
It determines the shutter speed.
It determines a wide view or a narrow view.
It determines the f-stop.
- 25. Multiple Choice
What was one technical consequence of early nineteenth-century cameras?
Photographers needed outside light.
Photographers had to use expensive film.
Photographers could only record stationary objects.
Photographers could not develop their own work.
- 26. Fill in the Blank
the width of the opening that admits light into a camera; a narrow aperture that lets in little light might be used in bright light and a wider aperture for lower-light conditions
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the forerunner of the modern camera, a dark room (or box) with a small hole in one side, through which an inverted image of the view outside is projected onto the opposite wall, screen, or mirror, and then traced
- 28. Fill in the Blank
a photograph taken by an early photographic process developed in the 1830s, in which a treated metal plate was exposed to light, and the chemical reactions on the plate created the first satisfactory photographic images
- 29. Fill in the Blank
the depth of the area before the camera that will be in sharp focus in a photo
- 30. Fill in the Blank
the ratio of the focal length to the size of the opening (aperture); low f-stops give a shallower field of focused material and higher ones can bring everything, near and far, into focus
- 31. Fill in the Blank
the distance between the lens and the image sensor
- 32. Fill in the Blank
the surface inside a camera where the image is collected, upside down; in traditional cameras the sensor was photographic film, but in digital cameras the sensor converts the light into an electric charge, which the camera's software reconstitutes as a photograph for display on the camera's screen
- 33. Fill in the Blank
the length of time the camera shutter is open; this determines the brightness of the resulting photo
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