Humanities Through The Arts 10Th Edition By Lee Jacobus – Test Bank

Humanities Through The Arts 10Th Edition By Lee Jacobus – Test Bank

Humanities through the Arts, 10e (Jacobus)

Chapter 11   Photography

1) One of the complaints about pictorialism is that it was

1. A) limited in depth of field.
2. B) emotionally shallow.
3. C) too symmetrical.
4. D) an interesting social document, but not a work of art.

2) Baudelaire thought photography was “art’s most mortal enemy” because

1. A) from the moment photography was invented, painting was dead.
2. B) photography could record only visual records, not something of a man’s soul.
3. C) as a product of the imagination, the photograph could not adequately represent reality.
4. D) the camera could record precisely what was before the lens.

3) Which best describes the early pictorialist photographer’s treatment of details?

1. A) Apply critical depth of field
2. B) Subordinate details to structure
3. C) Capture bright, bold colors
4. D) Reveal true emotion

4) Who took part in a federal program to give photographers work during the Great Depression?

1. A) EugèneAtget
2. B) James Van Der Zee
3. C) Dorothea Lange
4. D) Henri Cartier-Bresson

5) Which best describes the subject matter of O’Sullivan’s photograph, Canyon de Chelly?

1. A) permanence
2. B) Native American ritual
3. C) light and shadow
4. D) transformation

6) What historical time does Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother vividly capture?

1. A) World War I
2. B) the Harlem Renaissance
3. C) the Recession
4. D) the Great Depression

7) Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans are exemplars of which group?

1. A) Documentarists
2. B) Pictorialists
3. C) Sentimentalists
4. D) f/64 Group

8) Which photographer’s exhibit triggered Senator Jesse Helms to sponsor a bill prohibiting NEA funding of art deemed obscene or objectionable?

1. A) Joel Meyerowitz
2. B) Cindy Sherman
3. C) Bruce Davidson
4. D) Robert Mapplethorpe

9) Which photograph most closely resembles or suggests the composition of a painting?

1. A) Alfred Stieglitz’s Sun Rays, Paula
2. B) Bruce Davidson’s Opening at the Met
3. C) Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
4. D) Carrie Mae Weems’s Untitled (Man smoking)

10) What is the focus of straight photography?

1. A) sentimentality
2. B) beauty
3. C) clarity
4. D) softness

11) Which photographer developed the Zone System which allowed advanced control over the final print?

1. A) Edward Weston
2. B) Ansel Adams
3. C) Alfred Stieglitz
4. D) Imogen Cunningham

12) The Documentarists are especially interested in

1. A) sharp focus
2. B) “the decisive moment”
3. C) soft focus
4. D) symbolic meanings

13) Cindy Sherman uses what kind of photography?

1. A) pictorialism
2. B) straight photography
3. C) digital photography
4. D) documentary

14) What is the method of photography that Ansel Adams is known for?

1. A) the fine print
2. B) pictorialism
3. C) composition
4. D) interesting social statements

15) What group did Edward Weston belong to?

1. A) Pictorialists
2. B) Documentarists
3. C) ƒ/64 Group
4. D) Snapshot

16) Explain in detail what makes Alfred Stieglitz’s Paula a pictorialist photograph. Be sure to use examples and specific language.

17) Examine the photographs by Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Bruce Davidson. What are the characteristics of the best snapshot photographs? What have these three images got in common? What are their differences?