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Match the photographic term with its definition: -Caffenol


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 friendly
F) the person,place, or thing photographed

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


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

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


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 US
F) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

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


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 US
F) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

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


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

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When were the first successful photographs made using a camera?


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

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

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


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

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Match the photographic term with its definition: -subject


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 friendly
F) the person,place, or thing photographed

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Hannah HΓΆch was part of a movement known as ________.


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

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


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

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Photographic portraits can never be poetic or introspective.

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


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 US
F) used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings

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


A) backgrounds
B) proportion
C) scale
D) color
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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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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What is it called when a photographer chooses to make a photograph look candid and spontaneous?


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

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