2.8 Photography Exam #2

22 August 2022
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The first cameras were ________.
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room-sized
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Daguerreotypes are made on ________.
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polished metal plates
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A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.
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it creates very detailed images
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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________
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calotypes are negatives that can be readily reproduced
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Which of the following photographers is best known for making portraits?
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Nadar
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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange:
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first passed the pea-pickers' camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures
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One of the earliest surviving photographs is a still life by Daguerre featuring:
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plaster casts, a framed picture, and a wine flask, by a window
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The American photographer Edward Weston focused closely on the subject of his Pepper No. 30, making the viewer concentrate on the ________ and ________ of the vegetable.
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form texture
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In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.
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truthful
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The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification.
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iris-patterns from the original photograph
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What was the subject of the exhibition Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs?
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September 11, 2001
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When did it become common for photographs to be collected in major fine arts museums?
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1980s
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In his photograph Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.
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painting
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Loretta Lux digitally manipulates such elements as ________ to create the effect she wants in her pictures.
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all of the other answers (backgrounds, proportion, scale, color)
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The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.
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passengers on a steam ship
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What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?
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snapshot aesthetic
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Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.
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Dada
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Untitled—Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:
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images from the past and present