Photojournalism

Question 1

This photography by Jacob Riis, entitled, Sleeping Children. He was a photographer in New York City in the early 1900s who used his camera and skills to capture images in an effort to fuel change for the poor. This type of photography is called __________________.

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Social Documentation

Question 2

Choose the answer that is most accurate and true. What is photojournalism?

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A report of recorded facts about the world to provide others with information.

Question 3

Examine the photographic image above. Which of the following is true?

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This is an example of a montage because the artist has combined several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture.

Question 4

The photograph above is an example of _______________. This is a darkroom technique to create surreal images.

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solarization

Question 5

The Sabattier effect is _____________________

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a darkroom technique to create surreal images, which is made by re-exposing a partially developed print to light during the processing.

Question 6

___________ is a picture that includes the full face or another feature with much detail.

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Close up

Question 7

Straight photography was popularized by ______(1)______, which is ______(2)______.

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(1) Alfred Stieglitz; (2) a form of photography in which pictures are printed directly from the negatives with no cropping or other manipulation.

Question 8

Margaret Bourke White is famous for her photographic essays of WWII. White took this photo (above) entitled, The Living Dead, of German men looking at a group of concentration camp prisoners (although we cannot see the prisoners) after the camp was liberated. When she was asked by a LIFE magazine writer about the picture, she replied, "Dead men will have indeed died in vain, if living men refuse to look at them." What did she mean?

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If the living do not examine past mistakes, in particular with war and hatred, then the ones who died because of these things will have died for no reason.

Question 9

As was done with the photo above, photojournalism has allowed us to record not only facts and information, but also record __________________

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the feelings and emotions that only a visual image can show.

Question 10

_____________ was a very early use of photography. While this was traditionally used by rulers and the wealthy, photography made this type of art less expensive.

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Portraiture

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