The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 184 - 185

Question 1

Photography: What’s New

Answer 1

• the camera expressed feelings and manipulated reality to create fantasies and symbols

Question 2

Abbott: “The Past Jostling The Present”

Answer 2

• Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

- began career when photography was first established

Question 3

Bourke-White: The Photo-Essay

Answer 3

• Margaret Bourke-White (1904-71)

- shot classic photo-essays

Question 4

Adams: The American West

Answer 4

• Ansel Adams (1902-84)

- he was a conservationist and mountaineer who never grew bored with the wild

Question 5

Street Photography

Answer 5

• snapshot aesthetic arose in the ’60s