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
—the sequencing of widely disparate images to create a fast-paced, multifaceted image.
Montage
___________________ which means “bringing to life.”
Animation
Nam June Paik was one of the first artists to explore the use of ___________ installations as a
medium.
Video
In 1977, George Lucas’s _______________________ swept onto the scene and inaugurated an
era of “blockbuster” Hollywood attractions.
Star Wars
One of the biggest problems with contemporary art that incorporates technology is the fact that technology is ever changing and quickly becomes _____________________.
Obsolete
William Wegman is best known for his photos and videos of his _________. (video) Before moving into photography, Wegman’s videos often completely undermined the authority of the visual experience. He implied that we couldn’t trust what we were seeing.
Dogs
Bill Viola recreated Jacopo da Pontormo’s 1528 painting The Visitation in the form of a ______________for the 1995 Venice Bienale.
Video
Jeff Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind is modeled on a Hokusai _____________ but dramatically transforms the scene into a billboardlike depiction.
