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ARTH 3200-001
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Photography
Undergraduate 1
12/01/2015

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Which photographer is mentioned as having been exhibited by Alfred Steiglitz in his gallery "An American palace?"
Definition
Elliot Porter
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Who said:

"Photography is not a document on which a report can be made.  It is a subjective document. Photography is a false witness a lie."

Definition
Robert Doisneau
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Who does the book mention as having received a Guggenheim fellowship to photograph what has become America's most photographically influential and mimicked cross country road trip?
Definition
Robert Frank
Term

Who suppoted the metaphorical mode while working to

establish art photography in acadaemia using a scientific model?

Definition

Henry Homes Smith

 

Term
Who does the book say brought the concepts of abstract expressionism to photography by using a straight photographic style?
Definition
Aaron Siskind
Term
Who curated the exhibit "The Family Man" at the  museum of modern art?
Definition
Edward Steichen
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Who was the first curator of both the dept of Photography at the museum of modern art as well as the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film?
Definition
Beaumont Newhall
Term
Who said: "I photgraph not that which is, but that which I am."?
Definition
Minor White
Term
Who was the leader of the Photo League in the 1930's?
Definition
Aaron Siskind
Term

Who invented the photogravure process in 1879?

(applying aquatint grain to break up the image and allow for deeper etched shadows)

Definition
Karl Klic
Term
In 1842 the first weekly magazine to favor images over text was being published? What was the magazines name?
Definition
Illustrated London News
Term
Which photographers image was on teh cover of Life Magazine on November 23, 1936?
Definition
Margaret Bourke-White
Term
When did National Geographic first start using photography to illustrate its stories?
Definition
1906
Term
Who became the chief photgrapher for the Conde Nast publications of Vogue and Vanity Fair in 1923?
Definition
Edward Steichen
Term
When was the transmission of photography via the telephone a reliable option?
Definition
Mid 1930's
Term
Which photographers working dictum was: " If your pictures are not good enough,  you aren't close enough."
Definition
Robert Capa
Term

Which magazine photographer created a fine art project entitled:

" IN the American West?"

Definition
Richard Avedon
Term

Which FSA Photographer would construct theri images by moving items around to make a point?

 

FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Definition
Arthur Rothstein
Term
Which FSA photographer was also the first black photographer to be hired by LIFE magazine?
Definition
Gordon Parks
Term

Which photographer does the book associate with the physiognomic approach?

 

physiognomic approach:  Using body type and facial expressions to classify the truth of people

Definition

August Sander

 

Term
Who was in charge of the historical section and the photography for the FSA?
Definition
Roy Stryker
Term
Who is a famous photography studen of Lewis Hine?
Definition
Paul Strand
Term
Who was the photographer whose work was published in an album called the Hampton Album based on a school in Virginia known as the Hamptom Institute?
Definition
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Term
Which photographer started working as a police photographer?
Definition
Jacob Riis
Term
Approximately how many images did Edward S Curtis create photographing native Americans?
Definition
40,000
Term
Who was not associated with surrealistic themes?
Definition
Imogen Cunningham
Term
Which photographer did the book say dedicated himself to photogaphy after seeing some of Paul Strand's negatives?
Definition
Ansel Adams
Term
Who was not an original member of F64?
Definition
Paul Strand
Term
Who did Ansel Adams refer to as the antichrist?
Definition
William Mortensen
Term
Who were the original members of F64?
Definition

Ansel Adams

Imogen Cunningham

Edward Weston

and Willard Van Dyke

Term
What institution used the credo: "Art and Technology, a new unity."?
Definition
Bauhaus school of art, craft and design
Term

Who did the photographic project known as the 

"Equivalents"?

Definition
Alfred Steiglitz
Term
Which movement would I be talking about if I said it claimed freedom to experiment, determining play the preeminent activity and using chance as its agent?
Definition
Dadaism
Term
Why did Alfred Steiglitz abandon the principles of Pictorialism?
Definition
He felt photography had to stop mimicking other mediums.
Term
How does the book define "Art for Art's Sake."?
Definition
Personal art without social or religious sanction
Term
Which of these statements would NOT be condidered accurate in regards to society's acceptance of photographic veracity and the effects it had on painting?
Definition
Reinforced importance of one-point renaissance perspective
Term
Which photographer would I be talking about if I mentioned the decisive moment?
Definition
Henri-Cartier Bresson
Term
Which photographer would have used a single flash of an extremely short duration to photograph a bullet going through an apple?
Definition
Harold Edgerton
Term
Which photgrapher got their start by secretly photgraphing a murder trial in which photography was forbidden?
Definition
Erich Salomon
Term
Who does the BOOK not mention as having been influenced by or explored surrealism in their photography?
Definition
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Term
Which photgrapher was put on trial for killing his wife's lover?
Definition
Edweard Muybridge
Term
When was the Leica camera marketed with the 24x36mm format?
Definition
1924
Term
Who developed a folding hand camera with a focal plane shutter to photgraph birds?
Definition
Ottomar Anschutz
Term
Who developed a "photographic gun" to photgraph motion
Definition
Etienne-Jules marey
Term
Whichpictorialist photographer is mentioned to have started a photography school?
Definition
Clarence White
Term
Towards the end of pictorialism, the movement had fallen out of favor with Steiglitz and he had only presented one photogrpahic exhibit during the last four years of 291. Who was the photographer?
Definition
Paul Strand
Term
What was the name of the gallery that Alfred Steiglitz formed in 1905?
Definition
291
Term
The book gives a list of the printing processes that pictorialists favored because they allowed for considerable leeway for interpreting the negative.  Which process is NOT mentioned?
Definition
Albumen
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