Ch #5

Question 1

Photographic Transparency

Answer 1

make every person view truth and accuracy were best believed by, more information, the better

Question 2

Photographic Transparency Goal

Answer 2

give audience the impression that the photograph was what they would see had they been there to witness the event

Question 3

Influence of Painting Christianity

Answer 3

Relied on painter’s vocabulary and picturesque lithographs to determine to depict scene in photographs

Question 4

Influence of Christianity

Answer 4

Christianity stressed that art should be morally uplifting and instructive which played in how photographs were made

Question 5

Roger Fenton

Answer 5

Best known for pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war

Question 6

The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855, Salt Print

Answer 6

Showing the realities of war without showing people in it

Question 7

Felice Beato

Answer 7

The first photographer to show the horrific and unglamorous side of war to the British public; His work revealed the unmanipulated photograph made a documented style

Question 8

The American Civil War

Answer 8

Offered photographers new opportunities to hone their craft, improve their aesthetic, and find ways to link images with text

Question 9

Matthew Brady

Answer 9

Made about 7,000 negative in NYC in his studio and was awarded $25,000 by the government but ended up half blind and broke; No one else got credit for helping him with the photos; photos of war

Question 10

Alexander Garner

Answer 10

Self-taught of the wet plate process and worked with Matthew Brady
His first image was of the battle of Antietam that showed the visceral proof that war was not glorious and completely rebuked the myth of the beautiful battleground death

Question 11

Alexander Gardner, Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of War: Vol I, 1866

Answer 11

Featured in Matthew Brady’s gallery but got no credit or money from it

Question 12

Alexander Gardner, Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg from his sketchbook, 1863, Albumen Silver Print

Answer 12

STAGED He placed people where he wanted them

Question 13

John Reekie

Answer 13

He was employed by Matthew Brady in Washington D.C. and had images in the Sketchbook of the War

Question 14

A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1865, Albumen Silver Print

Answer 14

John Reekie

Question 15

Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Answer 15

Built his reputation on images that conveyed the destructive power of modern warfare; O’Sullivan’s images of war focused more on subjective sensations than analytical facts

Question 16

Timothy H. O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863, Albumen Silver Print

Answer 16

STAGED

Question 17

A.J. Russell

Answer 17

Captain in the infantry and was hired to photograph the engineer projects for the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps

Question 18

William H. Bell

Answer 18

The images made by Bell are clinical and distant - they serve as documents of pain, suffering, and disfigurement - signaling a shift in the use of photography from recreational/commercial to clinical/procedural

Question 19

The Circulation of Photographs of the Civil War

Answer 19

The earliest war photographs are not so much authentication of history as they are themselves history