chapter 11 Flashcards
Photography is like an ___________ ______________, because brings together a number of items into one composition instantly.
instant collage
______________ ______________ a small hole on the side of a light-tight room admits a ray of light that projects a scene, upside down, directly across from the hole onto a white wall.
camera obscura
________________ __________________ was the first photographic process capable of producing negative images on paper.
Photogenic Drawing
_____________________: One of the earliest forms of photography, using a copper plate polished with silver (often involved using mercury). This process captures minute details as a positive image. Disadvantages are that it is a slow process and cannot be reproduced.
Daguerreotype
_______________ ________________ is the basis of modern photography. Using paper instead of a metal plate, the calotype process made multiple prints a possibility.
Calotype Process
________-__________ ______________ photographic process that requires the artist to work quickly, but the exposure time is shorter than other processes, and it produces multiple copies.
Wet-Plate Collodion
Photographs became popular for portraits because they could – capture the “_______________________________”
Soul of the Sister
Photographs _____________and ______________ important events – they serve a documentary function.
Records and Preserves
_____________________________ photos from the Battle of Gettysburg depict the horror and reality of war, as opposed to the pageantry that was typically portrayed in the paintings in the past. He did, however make adjustments to the scene to heighten the dramatic effect.
Timothy O’Sullivan’s
One of the greatest sources of photography’s hold on the popular imagination lies in this ability
to ______________________the everyday — to reveal as beautiful that which we normally take for granted.
Aestheticize
Walker Evans worked for the Farm Security Administration as a __________________________ taking pictures of the poorest of the poor during the Great Depression.
Photo Journalist
Cartier-Bresson tried to capture the “__________________________” in his work. He might wait for hours for just such a moment.
Decisive Moment
Ansel Adams invented a __________ ______________ that involved adjusting the aperture of his camera. He also used dodging and burning to create the lighting effects he envisioned in his
work.
Zone System
________________________________ makes a sort of digital collage of multiple images of the same subject so that they more accurately represent the large-scale scenes he is depicting. He essentially eliminates the distortions a camera-view might create.
Gurskey
Although the movies may seem true to life, as if they were occurring in real time and space, this effect is only an illusion accomplished by means of ________________.
Editing
