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A major benefit of the daguerreotype process is that ________.


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

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Untitled-Passage on the Underground Railroad digitally combines:


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

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The mechanics of the camera are very similar to those of ________.


A) a horse-drawn carriage
B) a human eye
C) an oil-powered lamp
D) a convection oven
E) a telephone

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The first cameras were ________.


A) invisible
B) electric
C) room-sized
D) free
E) gas-powered

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


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

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What was the subject of the exhibition Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs?


A) September 11, 2001
B) the Civil War
C) U.S. Supreme Court decisions
D) Hurricane Katrina
E) all of the other answers

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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.


A) color . . . vibrancy
B) form . . . texture
C) smell . . . taste
D) stalk . . . leaf
E) all of the other answers

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What does the word "photograph" mean?


A) writing with light
B) signing a picture
C) imitating a drawing
D) reversing a tone
E) seeing through a lens

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Garry Winogrand frequently posed his subjects and set up his shots beforehand.

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Match the early photographic innovator with his invention: Match the early photographic innovator with his invention:

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A major benefit of the calotype process is that ________.


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

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The medium of Valley of the Shadow of Death is ________.


A) the Crimean War
B) 1855
C) color photograph
D) black-and-white photograph
E) Roger Fenton

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Daguerreotypes are made on ________.


A) celluloid film
B) handmade paper
C) polished metal plates
D) glass
E) canvas

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The photographer of Afghan Girl was able to locate the girl many years later using ________ as a means of identification.


A) the original photograph as a wanted poster
B) iris-patterns from the original photograph
C) voice recordings made during his earlier interview
D) Facebook
E) all of the other answers

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The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz depicts ________.


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

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In his photograph Two Ways of Life, Oscar Gustav Rejlander employed methods that emulated the process of ________.


A) painting
B) coloring books
C) encyclopedias
D) the silhouette machine
E) digital art

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In order for photojournalistic news photos to be effective they need to be seen as ________.


A) fun
B) colorful
C) truthful
D) surrealistic
E) none of the other answers

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Hannah Höch was part of a movement known as ________.


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

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Which of the following photographers is best known for making portraits?


A) Nadar
B) Anna Atkins
C) Abelardo Morell
D) Hannah Höch
E) Ansel Adams

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