History of Photography test 3 prep Flashcards

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Photo ID

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Lewis Hine, Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, 1908, Gelatin silver print

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What is the definition of the Halftone process?

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Breaking up a continuous-tone image into a pattern of dots of varying sizes

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Why did the Farm Security Administration hire photographers?

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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.

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Photo ID

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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Gelatin silver print

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What style or aesthetics of photography does this image represent?

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Modernism

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6
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Match images.

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A. Photogram, B Solarization, C. Photomontage

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How did smaller cameras change the role of the photographer and the aesthetics of photography?

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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.

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Photo ID

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Robert Capa, Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion, 1944, Gelatin silver print

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In your own words, define Henri Cartier-Bresson’s concept of “the decisive moment”

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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.

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What is the medium of photographic printing that is shown in this image?

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A: Carbro printing. Also called assembly printing. Still Life by Nicolas Murray. 1943.

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Matching

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A. Harry Callahan. B. Minor White. C. Aaron Siskind

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Subjective Photography: Match the image with the name of the photographer.

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A: Harry Callahan . . ?

B. Minor White

C. Aaron Siskind

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Photo ID

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Robert Frank, Trolley, New Orleans, 1955, Gelatin silver print

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14
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How was photography influential and important to the Civil Rights Movement?

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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.

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15
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Matching

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A. Garry Winogrand

B. Lee Friedlander

C. Diane Arbus

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16
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Identify the photographer whose 1976 exhibition at MoMA helped bring color photography to the fine art world.

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B: William Eggleston

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Select a conceptual photographer who uses some form of manipulation from Chapter 12 or the lecture. In your own words, describe their process and approach to the medium. For ex: focus on technique, meaning, intent, etc.

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Photos from lecture are

Marco Breuer, Untitled (C-1178), 2012, Chromogenic Paper, burned.

Betty Hahn Road and Rainbow, 1971. mixed media photo printed on fabric with colorizzaiton and embroidery added.

Nancy Burson, Mankind. 1983-85, gelatin silver print. Image of mankind composition based on facial features as derived from data sets for the worlds population. Looks largely asian due to higher concentrartion of asiatics composing most of the worlds population

Lucas Samaras, Photo-transformaton 39. June 13, 1974 Polaroid manipulation as photo is still wet.

18
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Whose image is this?

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Aaron Friedlander. Filling Station, Rear View Mirror. 1970/73

19
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Whose image is this?

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Garry Winogrand. 1964 World’s Fair, New York City.

20
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Whose image is this?

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Minor White. An Elegant Mystery.

21
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Whose image is this?

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Diane Arbus. Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967

22
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Whose image is this?

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Harry Callahan. Eleanor, Chicago (double exposure) 1953

23
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Whose image is this?

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Aaron Siskind

24
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Explain Henry Holmes Smith’s method of creating his work “Small Poster for a Heavenly Circus”

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1974-75 Dye Transfer (dye imbibition) print of drawing on multichrome dye transfer - refraction drawing. Modern verison of cliche verve. Random patterns formed on glass by substances - viscous liquids and crystals to make a negative for printing on sensitized paper. of non objective images. Connection with earlier abstactionist styles.

In a dye imbibition print, commonly called a dye transfer print, three separate sheets of negative film are produced through red, green, and blue filters. From these negatives, gelatin matrices are created with cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes. The matrices are lined up exactly on the paper, and the combination of transferred dye images creates a final full-color print. Dye imbibition prints are noted for their permanence. The black-and-white matrix film used in the process is more stable than chromogenic color film, so new dye imbibition prints can be made for many years after the original print.1