Week 10

Question 1

Documentary photography

Answer 1

piece of written, printed or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record

Question 2

Photographed yellowstone National Park

Answer 2

William Henry Jackson

Question 3

Early landscape/frontier photographer

Answer 3

William Henry Jackson

Question 4

Jacob Riis was a:

Answer 4

Police reporter for the Evening Sun

Question 5

Wrote a book called: How the Other Half Lives

Answer 5

Jacob Riis

Question 6

This photographer was a Sociologist that used his camera as a Research tool:

Answer 6

Lewis Hine

Question 7

What term did Lewis Hine coin with his work?

Answer 7

“Photo Story”

Question 8

Lewis Hine was white kind of photographer?

Answer 8

Documentary photographer - started documenting children in 1905

Question 9

FSA stands for?

Answer 9

Farm Security Administration

Question 10

Photographed “Migrant Mother”

Answer 10

Dorothea Lange

Question 11

What did Jacob Riis use for flash?

Answer 11

Potassium chlorate from a gun cartridge

Question 12

A protective child labour law passed as a result of his work:

Answer 12

Lewis Hine

Question 13

What was the FSA?

Answer 13

Photography Division headed by Roy Stryker in the 1930s

Question 14

Photographed the famous image on the Empire State building “Men at Work”

Answer 14

Lewis Hine

Question 15

Was the first foreign photographer allowed to photograph soviet industry

Answer 15

Margaret Bourke White

Question 16

Worked as an illustrator for Vogue then a photographer

Answer 16

George Hoyningen-Huene

Question 17

Margarete Bourke White was the first?

Answer 17

Female war photojournalist and first female photographer at Life Magazine

Question 18

Challenged to turn fashion photography into fine art in 1911

Answer 18

Steichen

Question 19

Paul Horst was known for?

Answer 19

Fashion and portraiture

Question 20

Photographed Gandhi in 1946

Answer 20

Margarete Bourke White

Question 21

Head photographer at Vogue for 15 years

Answer 21

Steichen

Question 22

What quote did Hoyningene-Huene quote from Chanel?

Answer 22

L’elegance c’est moi

Question 23

First Vogue cover in colour

Answer 23

Stechen in 1932

Question 24

How did Richard Avedon?

Answer 24

While on assignment for the New Yorker in 2004

Question 25

What was Richard Avedon known for?

Answer 25

Fashion for Harper Bazaar and Vogue, minimalist portraits, fashion photography, merchant marines

Question 26

He created elegant black and white fashion portraits in real life settings

Answer 26

Richard Avedon

Question 27

What was a turning point in Richard Avedon’s career?

Answer 27

When he focused on everyday working class subjects instead of famous public figures and fashion “In the American Midwest”

Question 28

He photographed Marilyn Monroe

Answer 28

Richard Avedon

Question 29

His work led to a revolt in 1887 against the slums and ultimately to housing reforms in New York

Answer 29

Jacob Riis

Question 30

What else did Dorothea Lange photograph that she is very well known for?

Answer 30

Japanese internment - WW2

Question 31

What kind of photographer was Margaret Bourke white predominantly?

Answer 31

Documentary / Reporter

Question 32

Which 4 photographers worked for Vogue?

Answer 32

Steichen, Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, Avedon

Question 33

This photographer did pure document work, not taking a strong position. Shot how simply and poorly they live

Answer 33

Walker Evans