Humanities Through The Arts 10Th Edition By Lee Jacobus – Test Bank
Humanities through the Arts, 10e (Jacobus)
Chapter 11Â Â Photography
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1) One of the complaints about pictorialism is that it was
- A) limited in depth of field.
- B) emotionally shallow.
- C) too symmetrical.
- D) an interesting social document, but not a work of art.
2) Baudelaire thought photography was “art’s most mortal enemy” because
- A) from the moment photography was invented, painting was dead.
- B) photography could record only visual records, not something of a man’s soul.
- C) as a product of the imagination, the photograph could not adequately represent reality.
- D) the camera could record precisely what was before the lens.
3) Which best describes the early pictorialist photographer’s treatment of details?
- A) Apply critical depth of field
- B) Subordinate details to structure
- C) Capture bright, bold colors
- D) Reveal true emotion
4) Who took part in a federal program to give photographers work during the Great Depression?
- A) EugèneAtget
- B) James Van Der Zee
- C) Dorothea Lange
- D) Henri Cartier-Bresson
5) Which best describes the subject matter of O’Sullivan’s photograph, Canyon de Chelly?
- A) permanence
- B) Native American ritual
- C) light and shadow
- D) transformation
6) What historical time does Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother vividly capture?
- A) World War I
- B) the Harlem Renaissance
- C) the Recession
- D) the Great Depression
7) Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans are exemplars of which group?
- A) Documentarists
- B) Pictorialists
- C) Sentimentalists
- D) f/64 Group
8) Which photographer’s exhibit triggered Senator Jesse Helms to sponsor a bill prohibiting NEA funding of art deemed obscene or objectionable?
- A) Joel Meyerowitz
- B) Cindy Sherman
- C) Bruce Davidson
- D) Robert Mapplethorpe
9) Which photograph most closely resembles or suggests the composition of a painting?
- A) Alfred Stieglitz’s Sun Rays, Paula
- B) Bruce Davidson’s Opening at the Met
- C) Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
- D) Carrie Mae Weems’s Untitled (Man smoking)
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10) What is the focus of straight photography?
- A) sentimentality
- B) beauty
- C) clarity
- D) softness
11) Which photographer developed the Zone System which allowed advanced control over the final print?
- A) Edward Weston
- B) Ansel Adams
- C) Alfred Stieglitz
- D) Imogen Cunningham
12) The Documentarists are especially interested in
- A) sharp focus
- B) “the decisive moment”
- C) soft focus
- D) symbolic meanings
13) Cindy Sherman uses what kind of photography?
- A) pictorialism
- B) straight photography
- C) digital photography
- D) documentary
14) What is the method of photography that Ansel Adams is known for?
- A) the fine print
- B) pictorialism
- C) composition
- D) interesting social statements
15) What group did Edward Weston belong to?
- A) Pictorialists
- B) Documentarists
- C) Æ’/64 Group
- D) Snapshot
16) Explain in detail what makes Alfred Stieglitz’s Paula a pictorialist photograph. Be sure to use examples and specific language.
17) Examine the photographs by Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Bruce Davidson. What are the characteristics of the best snapshot photographs? What have these three images got in common? What are their differences?
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