History of Photography test 3 prep Flashcards
Photo ID
Lewis Hine, Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, 1908, Gelatin silver print
What is the definition of the Halftone process?
Breaking up a continuous-tone image into a pattern of dots of varying sizes
Why did the Farm Security Administration hire photographers?
Document agrarian challenges. and condition of depression on agrarian workers.
Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. … Under Roy Stryker, the Information Division of the FSA adopted a goal of “introducing America to Americans.” Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project.
The goal of these measures was to help families become self-sustaining. One of the most memorable programs of the FSA is the collection of photographs that document the rural conditions from the Information Division of the Resettlement Administration.
Photo ID
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Gelatin silver print
What style or aesthetics of photography does this image represent?
Modernism
Match images.
A. Photogram, B Solarization, C. Photomontage
How did smaller cameras change the role of the photographer and the aesthetics of photography?
Candid. Portability. different views. Shutter speed. Accelerated street photography. Proliferation.
By 1898, just ten years after the first Kodak was introduced, one photography journal estimated that over 1.5 million roll-film cameras had reached … but later models produced a rectangular image, usually printed small … In the mid-1960s, the idea of a “snapshot aesthetic” began to gain currency in art photography circles.
Photo ID
Robert Capa, Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion, 1944, Gelatin silver print
In your own words, define Henri Cartier-Bresson’s concept of “the decisive moment”
anticipation of event…capture
tansitory. short time. defines the moment or event
The decisive moment refers to capturing an event that is ephemeral and spontaneous, where the image represents the essence of the event itself.
“the decisive moment.” This moment occurs when the visual and psychological elements of people in a real life scene spontaneously and briefly come together in perfect resonance to express the essence of that situation. capture this fleeting, quintessential, and holistic instant in the flow of life.
What is the medium of photographic printing that is shown in this image?
A: Carbro printing. Also called assembly printing. Still Life by Nicolas Murray. 1943.
Matching
A. Harry Callahan. B. Minor White. C. Aaron Siskind
Subjective Photography: Match the image with the name of the photographer.
A: Harry Callahan . . ?
B. Minor White
C. Aaron Siskind
Photo ID
Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, 1955, Gelatin silver print
How was photography influential and important to the Civil Rights Movement?
Awareness of what was happening. Documentary,
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on the power of photographs to persuade and to motivate. For many white Americans outside the South, it was easy to be unaware — or ignore outright — the segregation of the Jim Crow era.
But images of the everyday inequalities as well as the barbaric violence inflicted against children and peaceful protesters forced all Americans to notice, and to choose sides.
“The world seldom believes the horror stories of history until they are documented via the mass media,” Dr. King wrote in a letter to the novelist Harold Courlander in 1961.
Matching
A. Garry Winogrand
B. Lee Friedlander
C. Diane Arbus