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The author defines the term __________ "as the supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group". |
| | A) | editorial photography |
| | B) | political arena |
| | C) | censorship |
| | D) | afterimage |
| | E) | collodion process |
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In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse, and discovered that: |
| | A) | racing horses keep at least one hoof on the ground at all times. |
| | B) | horses occasionally gallop with all four hooves off the ground. |
| | C) | racing horses resemble hobby-horses with legs stretched forward and backward. |
| | D) | off-track betting is an easy way to make a living. |
| | E) | light-sensitive materials of that day could not stop action. |
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The widespread use by artists of the camera obscura (lit. dark room) began in: |
| | A) | Classical Greece. |
| | B) | the court of Louis XVI. |
| | C) | the Italian Renaissance. |
| | D) | the Industrial Revolution. |
| | E) | the mid-19th century. |
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A major difference between the video works of Nam June Paik and the films of modern filmmakers is |
| | A) | Paik's emphasis upon narrative content. |
| | B) | Paik's electronically manipulated images. |
| | C) | the influence of the surrealist movement. |
| | D) | Paik's development of early animated-film technique. |
| | E) | Paik's use of commercials to finance his art. |
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Artists primarily used the camera obscura to: |
| | A) | produce naturalistic drawings of the world. |
| | B) | develop photographic film in total darkness. |
| | C) | spy on their neighbors. |
| | D) | protect their unexposed photographic plates from the sun. |
| | E) | none of the above. |
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The photographic style which best describes simplified imagery and form reduced to the most essential characteristics is: |
| | A) | solarization. |
| | B) | photojournalism. |
| | C) | editorial photography. |
| | D) | dada and surrealism. |
| | E) | abstraction. |
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Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane is considered by many to be one of the best films ever made. It is noted for its: |
| | A) | epic battle scenes. |
| | B) | cast of thousands imported from Italy. |
| | C) | innovative camera angles and composition. |
| | D) | ingenious comic dialogue. |
| | E) | use of models and special effects. |
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A major difference between the work of a "pure" or "straight" photographer, such as Alfred Steiglitz, and the work of a photojournalist, such as Sebastiao Salgado, is: |
| | A) | the choice of subject matter. |
| | B) | the era in which the photographers worked. |
| | C) | the different intentions of each photographer. |
| | D) | the invention of the digital camera. |
| | E) | the cost of hiring models. |
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During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States government subsidized photographers and sent them out to: |
| | A) | photograph national parks. |
| | B) | create entertaining films. |
| | C) | teach photography. |
| | D) | document conditions across the country. |
| | E) | none of the above: photographers were not subsidized. |
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Early examples of art photography often imitated: |
| | A) | the brush strokes of Renaissance painters. |
| | B) | the dada photographic collages of Hannah Hoch. |
| | C) | film stills from grade-B Hollywood movies. |
| | D) | Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Last Supper. |
| | E) | the narrative form of painting. |
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In addition to his highly successful career as a portrait photographer, Mathew Brady was the first photographer to document a major war. Which war did he and his team photograph? |
| | A) | The Vietnam War. |
| | B) | World War I. |
| | C) | The War of 1812. |
| | D) | The American Civil War. |
| | E) | The Spanish-American War. |
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The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: |
| | A) | hired filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to make a film about crop dusting. |
| | B) | encouraged Future Farmers of America to photograph activities related to dairy farming and everyday rural life. |
| | C) | owned controlling shares of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1929. |
| | D) | sponsored photography classes in high schools across the country. |
| | E) | paid photographers to document the Great Depression. |
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According to the author, "the individual most responsible for establishing photography as an art form" was: |
| | A) | Fred Ott. |
| | B) | Joseph Nicephore Niepce |
| | C) | Alfred Steiglitz. |
| | D) | Lewis Carroll. |
| | E) | Dorothea Lange. |
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The Surrealist movement that arose after World War I involved a fascination with: |
| | A) | pictorialism and photography of the American West. |
| | B) | television and video art. |
| | C) | the American Civil War. |
| | D) | the unconscious. |
| | E) | the middle ages in Sweden. |
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The Lumière Brothers: |
| | A) | originated the concept of auteur in filmmaking. |
| | B) | invented the first workable film projector. |
| | C) | invented the first recorded film soundtrack. |
| | D) | collaborated with Thomas Edison in making short films. |
| | E) | none of the above. |
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The Massachusetts Institute of Photography used the photographs of ____________ to illustrate a high school science textbook published in 1957: |
| | A) | Berenice Abbot. |
| | B) | Eadweard Muybridge. |
| | C) | Lee Miller. |
| | D) | Leland Stanford. |
| | E) | Robert Mapplethorpe. |
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Despite an enthusiastic public acceptance, the success of the daguerreotype was limited by: |
| | A) | a strict international patent. |
| | B) | the inability to make multiple images from one negative. |
| | C) | painters who believed photography was not art. |
| | D) | the invention of the motion picture. |
| | E) | the cost of silver. |
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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln posed for a carte de visite portrait. This photograph helped shape his political career since: |
| | A) | it was reproduced photographically in newspapers across the country. |
| | B) | it made Lincoln look more sophisticated. |
| | C) | the photographic process enabled unlimited multiple images to be produced. |
| | D) | Matthew Brady was the most famous photographer of the day. |
| | E) | it was the last photograph taken of Lincoln before he was assassinated. |
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In 1888 the Kodak camera changed the history of photography |
| | A) | by making photography easily accessible to the general public. |
| | B) | when George Eastman invented color film. |
| | C) | when Roy DeCarava began making photographs of everyday life. |
| | D) | when the "snapshot" replaced art photography. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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The works of Henry Peach Robinson and Mariko Mori exemplify the photographers': |
| | A) | manipulation and combination of different photographic images in one work. |
| | B) | editorial approach to photography. |
| | C) | use of the computer to create new photographic images. |
| | D) | intention to make the viewer become part of the photograph as they move through it. |
| | E) | none of the above. |
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