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He used a 400mm focal length

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Peter Emerson

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This process produces delicacy and soft greys

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Platinotype

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Peter Emerson used the:

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Platinotype

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He advised photographers to put lens slightly out of focus because this is how the human eye sees

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Peter Emerson

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This photographer rejected retouching

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Peter Emerson

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6
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This photographer believed that photography was an artform

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Alfred Stieglitz

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This photographer manipulated negatives by chemical means and by using slides on slides

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Alfred Stieglitz joined:

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The Society of Amateur Photographers and became their editor

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9
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Pictorial Photography

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based on principles of art

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10
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Who started pictorial photography

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Henry Peach Robinson

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Chiaroscuro

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treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

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Pictorial photography used an art principle called

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Chiaroscuro

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13
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What is straight photography?

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People on the street, machines, abstractions, architectural scenes

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14
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Paul Strand studied under:

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Lewis Hine

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15
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Earned a living making films

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Paul Strand

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16
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Where did Eugene Atget sell his work?

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Artists, museums, librarys

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What did Eugene Atget work with?

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8x10 box camera, wooden tripod, glass plate

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18
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Opened own portrait studio in California in 1911

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Edward Weston

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19
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Was famous for abstract and realism, nude photography, obsessed with detail in clarity

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Edward Weston

20
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Why did Edward Weston reject enlarging?

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Loss of precision

21
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Emerson used what kind of photography

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Straight photography

22
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During his career he won’t 150 medals for photography in Europe and the US

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Alfred Stieglitz

23
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These became an important avenue for photographers to get noticed

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Salons

24
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Alfred Stieglitz created his own publication called;

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Camera Works and the “Photo-Secession”

25
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Photo Secession

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to advance photography as applied to pictorial expression photography, to draw together Americans practising or otherwise interested in Art

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Gallery 291

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Little galleries of the Photo Secession in NYC - 291 Fifth Avenue

27
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Exhibited work by Secessionists along with paintings to associate photography with fine art

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Gallery 291

28
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Paul Strand used

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Straight photographic technique

29
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He photographed “Blind” and “Young Boy”

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Paul Strand

30
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How many photographs did Eugene Atget produce?

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10,000 photographs in 30 years

31
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He was a documentary photographer, street photographer and Artist

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Eugene Atget

32
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Obsessed with depth of field, clarity, and depth of field

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Edward Weston

33
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Edward Weston bought what kind of Lens?

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f/256 - “This should satisfy my craving for more depth of focus”

34
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in 1932, a group of young photographers formed the Group “F.64” honouring:

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Edward Weston

35
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The photo secession founded by Alfred Stieglitz formed the beginnings of?

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Modernism in Photography

36
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Straight photography also known as:

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Equivalents: to his thoughts, hopes, aspirations, despairs, and fears

37
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Which photography said the artist role was to imitate the effect of nature on the eye?

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Peter Emerson

38
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“Photography should take its place in open review with other mediums, this way its possibilities and limitations are more carefully judged”

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Alfred Stieglitz

39
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Paul Strand was one of the founders of?

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The photo League: social and political causes

40
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____’s work moved _____ to change his approach and abandon painting and explore straight photography.

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Paul Strand, Steichen

41
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Born in Libourne, France. Worked as a sailor then an actor

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Eugene Atget

42
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This photographer moved to Mexico City in 1923 where he created his most famous work - portraits, nudes, natural forms, close-ups, landscapes

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Edward Weston

43
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Modernism in photography:

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Evolution of photography from a soft painterly quality to modern form taking shape in clarity and detail

44
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What age did Atget began photographing?

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40

45
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Photographed “The Pepper”

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Edward Weston

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