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38 Cards in this Set
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The prehistory of photography includes
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the camera obscura, one-point linear perspective, artistic realism, and scientific naturalism
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Photography emerges at the same times as what art movement
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naturalism
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Important Nineteenth century photographers
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Nadar, Daguerre, Rejlander, Liang Shitai
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The "sequential" or "time" photographs of whom anticipates the development of the cinema
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Marey
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Steichen's Rodin-The Thinker is most related to what photographic art movement
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Pictorilism
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Stieglitz's The Steerage is most closely related to what art movement
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Straight photography
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Kirchner's Red Cossete, Wiene's Cabinet of Dr. Calgari, and Murnau;s Last Laugh are exemplars of
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expressionism
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The workd of Rothstein, Lange, Jost, and Guney exemplify which major interpretive category
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Social realism
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The photographs of Weston, Siskind, and Bourke-White might be categorized within the major artistic direction known as
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formalism
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The Photomotages of Man Ray and Herbert Bayer and the cinema of Bunel and Fellini are exemplars of
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surrealism
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Both Daguerre and .... are considered inventors of photography
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Talbot
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The creator of the metal-plate daguerreotype is Daguerre.The creator of the modern photographic print from a negative is
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Talbot
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The 1860 photomontage, Head of John the Baptist, is by
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Rejlander
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The first nineteenth century photographs that could clearly capture motion were called ....photographs
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instataneous
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The impressionist artist Degas was strongly influenced by....photographs in which moving figures were naturally cut off or "cropped" by the edges of the picture frame
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instantaneous
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The American photographer Steichen became friends with and took famous picture of the French sculptor...
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Rodin
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It took a great collaborative effort to create director Orson Welles' film masterpiece, entitled
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Citizen Kane
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President Woodrow Wilson marveled that D.W. Griffith's silent film....was "history written in lightening"
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Birth of a Nation
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Called a "supreme humanist" Dorothea Lange's photograph..... is one of the pictures that best captures the trials of the Great Depression
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Migrant Mother
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With a flair for formalist abstraction, this individual became a leading photographer for Life magazine. Her name is
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Bourke-White
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One of the inventors of photography is Stieglitz
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False. Talbot and Daguerre
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The major pictoralist photographer and supporter of vangaurd art is Daguerre
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false
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Orson Welles is a leading straight photographer
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false
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The work of both Rejlander and Kruger might be described as photomontage
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True
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The works of Brodsky and Cohen are examples of digital photography
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True
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Nam June Paik's Tv Buddha combines video and sculpture in a three dimensional environment or "installation
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true
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Bill Viola is a leading practitioner of the art form of documentary photography
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false
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The creator of the " Untitled Film Still" series, Cindy Sherman,is identified with the art form of photography
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True
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The camera obscura was an early camera that used film
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true
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Digital photography requires a negative, darkroom, and contact printing
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false
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Camera Obscura
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From the Italian for "dark" (obscura) and "room" (camera), a lightproof box with a small opening or lens for projecting and image of an object or scene onto a surface from which the image can be observed or copied
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Naturalism
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The mid-nineteenth-century style or school of art, anticipated in the painting of John Constable, that emphasized truth to nature's actual appearances and a democratic range of subject mater. Including scenes of everyday life and commonplace landscape views. Painting outdoors so as to capture with honesty the freshness and light of everyday scenes, Charles-Francois Daubigny and young future impressionists such as Claude Monet and and Pierre-Auguste Renoir worked within the naturalist approach.
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Daguerreotype
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A photograph made on a plate of chemically treated metal or glass, named after Louis Daguerre, the French artist and inventor who developed photography in the 1830's
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Pictoralism
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A movement in vangaurd photography at one with the symbolist aesthetics of the late nineteenth century that emphasizes the artistic (pictorial)possibilities of the camera's imagery. Turn-of- the-century photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Gertrude Kasabier considered themselves pictoralists and strove for formal beauty, suggestive moods, and poetic truths in their work.
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Straight photography
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In general terms, any photographic approach that emphasizes straightforward documentation
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Expressionalism
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The approach to creating art that focuses on the exaggeration or distortion of natural of natural forms for the purpose of expressing the artist's subjective feelings
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Surrealism
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The movement in the literary and visual arts from the mid 1920's to the mid 1940's that sought to reveal the contents of the unconscious mind and dream world, joining the conscious and unconscious realms of existence in a superreality or " surreality" In the visual arts, surrealist artists pursued two general stylistic directions, one representational ( Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte) and the other highly abstract ( Andre Masson)
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Social Realism
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A term used in the twentieth century to describe a realistic style of art that portrays, often from a leftist political perspective, the life of the common person in society. In the United States, social realism in painting, sculpture, photography, and the graphic arts was the dominant style of the Depression years of the 1930's
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