Photography 2 test

Question 1

The Bricklayer

Answer 1

August Sander
1928
1) Part of the “People of the 20th century” photograph book
2) Showed people of Germany from different social classes in a nonjudgmental yet elevated way
3) More of a casual style

Question 2

Gathering Waterlilies

Answer 2

Peter Henry Emerson
1886
1) Believed that photography should be an art form and was influenced by naturalistic French paintings
2) Aimed to capture depth and atmosphere in his photographs
3) Photograph is not staged nor romantic and upholds his theories on naturalistic photography as opposed to Victorian subject matter

Question 3

Cut with a Kitchen Knife

Answer 3

Hannah Hoch
1919
1) Example of post-World War 1 surrealism which reflected chaos in Europe, anti-nationalism, and nihilism
2) Specifically, part of Dadaism movement, which embraced absurdity instead of strict artistic values
3) Photograph is a photocollage which was the cutting of various images to be reassembled into a new one

Question 4

Future Expectations (Wedding Day)

Answer 4

James Vanderzee
1926
1) Meant to show the newlywed couple’s yearning to have a child in their future.
2) An example of a positive depiction of African Americans in the context of photography as opposed to negative ones
3) Many props were used in Vanderzee’s Harlem studio and also retouched his prints to add glamour.

Question 5

Colorado River

Answer 5

Timothy O’Sullivan
1871
1) Part of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
2) A photograph depicting man’s relationship with nature and its enormity
3) Also a self portrait of Timothy O’Sullivan and the boat he used that doubled as a dark room.

Question 6

The Steerage

Answer 6

Alfred Stieglitz
1907
1) Photograph taken on a boat to Europe when Stieglitz was with his family
2) Struck by the pairings of dark and light as well as the geometric shapes with organic shapes
3) Shift from pictorialism into modernism

Question 7

The Octopus

Answer 7

Alvin Langdon Coburn
1912
1) A photograph of Madison Square in New York from a high vantage point and had no horizon line
2) Abstraction merged with pictorialist ideals which moved into a modernist approach

Question 8

Sadness

Answer 8

Julia Margaret Cameron
1864
1) Both idealized and allegorical portraits which transcended previous ideas of portraiture
2) Used titles of her photographs to lead the viewer down a storyline
3) an early feminine perspective behind photography

Question 9

Dust Breeding

Answer 9

Man Ray
1920
1) Made in collaboration with DuChamp
2) Was a large glass plate covered in dust motes
3) Was an example of how something mundane could be photographed in a way that felt surreal

Question 10

Fete Tu Trone

Answer 10

Eugene Atget
1925
1) Used the visible world as a stage
2) Moved beyond photography as a record, but as also something personal and poetic
3) Photograph has surreal qualities despite not intending to have them. Pushed back on people saying his work was surrealist

Question 11

Eldridge Street Police Station Lodger

Answer 11

Jacob Riis
1890
1) Example of how he used photography to bring awareness to social issues such as lower class struggles and poverty.
2) Newspapers used the halftone process to print more accurate versions of his photographs
3) Photos used not in an artworld or exhibit context. But as documentation of living standards of lower-class people.

Question 12

Young Russian Jewish Immigrant

Answer 12

Lewis Hine
1905
1) a dignified portrait of a lower-class immigrant girl rather than a depiction of her as a victim
2) Took photographs such as these to fight anti-immigration and xenophobic rhetoric
3) Humanized immigrants with a quiet dignity rather than as the typical negative stereotypes

Question 13

Barn, (Cape Cod)

Answer 13

Ansel Adams
1937
1) Strove to make pure photographs that held some emotional meaning
2) Image of a barn had imagery of American iconography such as a white picket fence
3) Reflected his internal emotion of what he felt captured the essence of American life

Question 14

Towards Los Angeles

Answer 14

Dorothea Lange
1937
1) part of the Farm Security Administration’s (FSA) campaign to photograph and document the effects of the dust bowl and the great depression on the American people
2) Image used dark satire and irony to demonstrate how the financial and environmental hardships affected people
3) Caused the viewer to relate to these struggles and sympathize with people in the struggle

Question 15

2 Cons of Daguerreotypes

Answer 15

1) Exposure times were too long
2) Images were difficult to view from different angles

Question 16

2 Pros of Calotype

Answer 16

1) Unlimited prints could be made from a single copy
2) Prints on paper were easier to examine and not as delicate

Question 17

Pictorialism

Answer 17

Timeframe 1885 - 1915

Movement that strove to make photographs in the same light as paintings instead of just purely for documentation. An increase of emphasis on atmosphere and naturalism. Movement had artists such as Peter Henry Emerson (Gathering Waterlilies) and Edward Steichen (The Pond Moonlight)