Week 7&9

Question 1

He used a 400mm focal length

Answer 1

Peter Emerson

Question 2

This process produces delicacy and soft greys

Answer 2

Platinotype

Question 3

Peter Emerson used the:

Answer 3

Platinotype

Question 4

He advised photographers to put lens slightly out of focus because this is how the human eye sees

Answer 4

Peter Emerson

Question 5

This photographer rejected retouching

Answer 5

Peter Emerson

Question 6

This photographer believed that photography was an artform

Answer 6

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 7

This photographer manipulated negatives by chemical means and by using slides on slides

Answer 7

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 8

Alfred Stieglitz joined:

Answer 8

The Society of Amateur Photographers and became their editor

Question 9

Pictorial Photography

Answer 9

based on principles of art

Question 10

Who started pictorial photography

Answer 10

Henry Peach Robinson

Question 11

Chiaroscuro

Answer 11

treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

Question 12

Pictorial photography used an art principle called

Answer 12

Chiaroscuro

Question 13

What is straight photography?

Answer 13

People on the street, machines, abstractions, architectural scenes

Question 14

Paul Strand studied under:

Answer 14

Lewis Hine

Question 15

Earned a living making films

Answer 15

Paul Strand

Question 16

Where did Eugene Atget sell his work?

Answer 16

Artists, museums, librarys

Question 17

What did Eugene Atget work with?

Answer 17

8x10 box camera, wooden tripod, glass plate

Question 18

Opened own portrait studio in California in 1911

Answer 18

Edward Weston

Question 19

Was famous for abstract and realism, nude photography, obsessed with detail in clarity

Answer 19

Edward Weston

Question 20

Why did Edward Weston reject enlarging?

Answer 20

Loss of precision

Question 21

Emerson used what kind of photography

Answer 21

Straight photography

Question 22

During his career he won’t 150 medals for photography in Europe and the US

Answer 22

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 23

These became an important avenue for photographers to get noticed

Answer 23

Salons

Question 24

Alfred Stieglitz created his own publication called;

Answer 24

Camera Works and the “Photo-Secession”

Question 25

Photo Secession

Answer 25

to advance photography as applied to pictorial expression photography, to draw together Americans practising or otherwise interested in Art

Question 26

Gallery 291

Answer 26

Little galleries of the Photo Secession in NYC - 291 Fifth Avenue

Question 27

Exhibited work by Secessionists along with paintings to associate photography with fine art

Answer 27

Gallery 291

Question 28

Paul Strand used

Answer 28

Straight photographic technique

Question 29

He photographed "Blind" and "Young Boy"

Answer 29

Paul Strand

Question 30

How many photographs did Eugene Atget produce?

Answer 30

10,000 photographs in 30 years

Question 31

He was a documentary photographer, street photographer and Artist

Answer 31

Eugene Atget

Question 32

Obsessed with depth of field, clarity, and depth of field

Answer 32

Edward Weston

Question 33

Edward Weston bought what kind of Lens?

Answer 33

f/256 - "This should satisfy my craving for more depth of focus"

Question 34

in 1932, a group of young photographers formed the Group "F.64" honouring:

Answer 34

Edward Weston

Question 35

The photo secession founded by Alfred Stieglitz formed the beginnings of?

Answer 35

Modernism in Photography

Question 36

Straight photography also known as:

Answer 36

Equivalents: to his thoughts, hopes, aspirations, despairs, and fears

Question 37

Which photography said the artist role was to imitate the effect of nature on the eye?

Answer 37

Peter Emerson

Question 38

"Photography should take its place in open review with other mediums, this way its possibilities and limitations are more carefully judged"

Answer 38

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 39

Paul Strand was one of the founders of?

Answer 39

The photo League: social and political causes

Question 40

____'s work moved _____ to change his approach and abandon painting and explore straight photography.

Answer 40

Paul Strand, Steichen

Question 41

Born in Libourne, France. Worked as a sailor then an actor

Answer 41

Eugene Atget

Question 42

This photographer moved to Mexico City in 1923 where he created his most famous work - portraits, nudes, natural forms, close-ups, landscapes

Answer 42

Edward Weston

Question 43

Modernism in photography:

Answer 43

Evolution of photography from a soft painterly quality to modern form taking shape in clarity and detail

Question 44

What age did Atget began photographing?

Answer 44

40

Question 45

Photographed "The Pepper"

Answer 45

Edward Weston