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- 1. Multiple Choice
What invention made the precise detail possible in Jacob Riis's photographs for How the Other Half Lives?
flash photography
multiple exposures
digital processing
handheld camera
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Jeff Wall describes himself as a “near-documentary” photographer because
he prefers color over black-and-white photographs.
he blows up his images to maximum size.
his realistic images are staged.
he shows his work in art museums and galleries.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What provided the artistic model for photographic portraits?
newspaper photography
established traditions in painting
popular posters and advertisements
scientific illustrations
- 6. 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.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which Renaissance artist described the uses of the camera obscura?
Titian
Rapheal
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
- 8. 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
- 9. Multiple Choice
What does the f-stop determine?
depth of field
focal length
developmetn time
shutter speed
- 10. 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.
- 11. 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
- 12. Multiple Choice
Today’s smartphone cameras do not automatically set
shutter speed
focal length
development time
aperture
- 13. Multiple Choice
What distinguishes digital photography from traditional photography?
It does not use film.
It is of higher resolution.
It does not require printing.
It can be altered.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which contemporary photographer uses a process called chlorophyll printing?
Trevor Paglen
Susan Derges
Binh Danh
James Welling
- 15. 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.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What common practice does the contemporary photographer Chris Steele-Perkins share with Margaret Bourke-White?
an interest in color photography
documenting third world cultures
focus on landscape photography
documentary photo essays
- 17. 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.
- 18. 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.
- 19. 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
- 20. 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
- 21. 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
- 22. 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
- 23. 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.
- 24. 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.
- 25. Multiple Choice
What concept did Margaret Bourke-White introduce?
documentary photography
the photo essay
photography journals
commercial photography
- 26. Multiple Choice
the width of the opening that admits light into a camera; a norrow apertue that lets in little light might be used in bright light and wider aperture for lower-light conditions
aperture
daguerroeotype
- 27. Multiple Choice
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, screem, mirror, and then traced
camera obscura
image sensor
- 28. Multiple Choice
a photograph taken by an early photographic process develped in the 1830s, in which a treated metal plate was exposed to light, and the chemical reactions on the plate created the first satisfactory phototgraphic images
daguerrotype
aperture
- 29. Multiple Choice
the depth of the area before the camera that will be in sharp focus in a photo
depth of field
f-stop
- 30. Multiple Choice
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
f-stop
focal length
- 31. Multiple Choice
the distance between the lens and the image sensor
focal length
depth of field
- 32. Multiple Choice
the surface inside a camera where the image is collected, upside down; in traditional cameras the sensor was photographic flim, but in digital cameras the sensor converts the light inot an electric charge, which the camera's software reconstitutes as a photograph for display on the camera's screen
image sensor
camera obscure
- 33. Multiple Choice
the length of time the camera shutter is open; this determines the brightness of the resulting photo
shutter speed
image sensor
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