Chapter 9 Flashcards
The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as
photojournalism.
A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a
copper plate covered with silver iodine.
The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to
World War I
The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
paid photographers to document the Great Depression.
In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography
by making photography easily accessible to the general public.
A major difference between the work of a “pure” or “straight” photographer, such as Alfred Stieglitz, and the work of a documentary photographer, such as Dorothea Lange, is
the different intentions of each photographer.
Early examples of art photography often imitated
the narrative form of painting.
The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began in
the Italian Renaissance.
In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that
galloping horses occasionally have all four hooves off the ground.
Nam Jun Pak is best known for
video art.
