history of american photography quiz Flashcards
Paul Strand
created straight photography
Alfred Stieglitz
Took realistic pictures that looked like art, photo secessionist movement
Frank Matsura
Took photos of Native Americans and all the ways they looked, good and bad, not how they ‘ought to look
Gilbert Grover
editor of National Geographic magazine
Edward Curtis
photographed native Americans on how they ‘ought to look, fixed them up
Ruth Snyder
A man who was electrocuted
George Hurrell
glamour photography, created stars, made people look good
Lewis Hine
social reformer, pictures of child labor, changed labor laws
Who were the Pictorialists?
people who smeared Vaseline and put chemicals on their lines
What were half-tones? How did they help news reporting?
Half tones were a process to make it possible to print photos directly on a page, to be able to produce many, they help to get the news around quicker
What was the early 20th century snapshot camera that helped popularize photography for the middle class?
The Brownie camera
How did the mass production of images change the world?
they made photography more popular, they made people see the reality in the world
Which photographer took staged documentary photos of Native Americans?
Edward Curtis
what was straight photography?
it was an abstract form of photography, new vision
what was the first story to appear in National Geographic magazine?
pictures of Laza in Tebet, wonders of the world, showed reality, rationalizing this point of view
how was photography used by the government during World War I?
they publish dead soldier photos, which showed the horrifying truth about war
Who was Rudolph Valentino?
he was an actor with good looks that made him a star, a woman assembled pictures of him in scrapbooks, and he died at 31 years old from a burst appendix
what role did picture postcards play? what was photo montage?
postcards showed new memories and events to family and friends. Photo montage was an exaggeration, (great art)
