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

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This is an example of a portraiture because the artist has recorded facts about the world to provide others with information.
B
This is an example of a montage because the artist has captured the likeness of a person through photography, usually in great detail of the facial expression.
C
This is an example of a montage because the artist has combined several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture.
D
This is an example of a portraiture because the artist has created surreal images, which by re-exposing a partially developed print to light during the processing.
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Choose the answer that is most accurate and true. What is photojournalism?

A
A photographic narrative series consisting of a series of related images.
B
A report of recorded facts about the world to provide others with information.
C
A wall display to show the latest and best trends.
D
A darkroom technique to create surreal images.
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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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political changes as they are happening.
B
people's ages and physical features, which are important to understanding any situation.
C
the feelings and emotions that only a visual image can show.
D
changes in people's perceptions just before a change in culture occurs.
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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.
B
People must be made to feel guilty for their involvement with hate, if things are ever to change in the world and people are ever going to live in harmony.
C
In order to understand death, people have to see it with their own eyes.
D
If the living men refuse to look at the dead, and the dead are only seen by the women who bury them, then the dead’s accomplishments cannot be remembered.
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The Sabattier effect is _____________________

A
a picture that includes the full face or another feature with much detail.
B
a darkroom technique to create surreal images, which is made by re-exposing a partially developed print to light during the processing.
C
a printing process in which an image is photographed through a screen on to a sensitized printing plate that after development is etched.
D
a process of combining several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture. This is done by blocking out certain parts during processing, while in the dark room.
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Dorothea Lange was a photographer/photo journalist during _______________.

A
the Great Depression
B
the Vietnam War
C
the Civil War
D
World War II

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