Quiz 2

Question 1

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Answer 1

• Known for soft-focus, romantic Pictorialist portraits
(Men of Mark) & cityscapes, then becoming more
hard-edged & Modernist after.

• Early Photo Secession member.

• he produced a series of
cubistic/abstract images called Vortographs, inspired
by poet Ezra Pound, whose term Vorticism was the
name for the British version of Cubism.

Question 2

Clarence H. White

Answer 2

• Known for soft-focus, romantic Pictorialist portraits
& landscapes.

• Under Stieglitz’s leadership, one of several
cofounders of the Photo Secession.

Question 3

The Symbolist Movement

Answer 3

• Used art to transcend
ordinary reality and evoke a more perfect realm of
pure emotion, beauty, and spirit.

• It did so by downplaying concrete fact and detail,
using soft forms and color to produce an ethereal
mood of dreaminess and reverie.

• It “aspired to the condition of music.” That is, it
tried to create an immediate and deep emotional
response rather than something that was
reasoned and analytical.

Question 4

Photo Secession

Answer 4

founded & led by Alfred

Stieglitz.

Question 5

Camera Work

Answer 5

the Photo Secession journal,
edited by Stieglitz, designed by Steichen, with
gravure printed images.

Question 6

Stieglitz Galleries

Answer 6

The Little Galleries of
the Photo Secession, Gallery 291, The Intimate
Gallery, An American Place.

Question 7

Precisionism (Cubo-Realism) painting

movement

Answer 7

Sheeler, Demuth, O’Keeffe.

Question 8

Mexicanidad art/culture movement

follows Mexico’s socialist revolution

Answer 8

Rivera, Kahlo

Question 9

Edward Steichen

Answer 9

• Cofounder of Photo Secession, designer of Camera
Work.

• Known for beautifully lit, stylized, and masterfully
printed Pictorialist portraits & landscapes.

• Developed military aerial photo techniques during
WWI.

• Highly influential chief fashion/portrait/
commercial photographer for Condé Nast
publications and J. Walter Thompson Advertising.

• Director of photo at MoMA, exhibitions
included Family of Man, 1955, one of the most
popular but controversial photo shows of all time;
the catalog is still in print.

Question 10

Alfred Stieglitz

Answer 10

• Most influential individual/impresario in the
development & promotion of U.S. fine art
photography & avant-garde modern art in general.

• founded Photo Secession, later Camera Work,
galleries, etc.

• he championed
Pictorialism & later straight photography.

Question 11

Equivalents

Answer 11

Coined by Alfred Stieglitz became the dominant
guiding principles of American Modernist art
photography until well into the 1960s.

Question 12

Paul Strand

Answer 12

• Known for ultra-pure, large format, sharp, straight
photography: portraits, landscapes, close-ups of
machines & nature, etc.

• Studied with Lewis Hine & Charles Caffin at NYC
Ethical Culture School.

• transition from Pictorialism
to Straight (Modernist) photography.

• Worked as cameraman on experimental &
documentary films

Question 13

Charles Sheeler

Answer 13

• Precisionist painter who often used sharp, straight
photos as painting references & art works in their
own right.

• Collaborated with Paul Strand on 1920 experimental
film Manhatta.

•worked commercially for Condé Nast
magazines.

Question 14

Edward Weston

Answer 14

1st Guggenheim Fellowship for a photographer

Question 15

Ansel Adams

Answer 15

• Founded Group f64 in 1932
• Co-founder MoMA photo dept
• Founded Friends of Photography

Question 16

Imogen Cunningham

Answer 16

• Worked in
Pictorialist style.

• straight, sharp focus plant studies. Joined
Group f64

• Also known for nudes (including males!), portraits.

Question 17

Tina Modotti

Answer 17

• Used photography as a political
propaganda tool to further her social reform,
revolutionary politics, & Communist activism in
Mexico.

• Concentrated on images of workers, women,
children, markets, etc.

Question 18

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Answer 18

Mexico’s best known native-born photographer:

“the poet of the lens.”