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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.
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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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Which of the following is not true about digital photography?

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Digital photography has allowed artists to manipulate images and create images or scenes that may never have existed.
B
Digital photography is a process in which there is no film.
C
For each image captured using a digital camera, a tonal inversion of a positive image is created, in which light appears dark, and dark appears light.
D
With digital photography, the charge-coupling device is exposing light to thousands of little dots that record the light into pixels.
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______________ is a printing process in which an image is photographed through a screen on to a sensitized printing plate that after development is etched.

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Daguerreotype
B
Cyanotype
C
Photogravure
D
Digital imaging
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Choose the answer that is most accurate and true. What is photojournalism?

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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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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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What is the depth of field?

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The area of the film in which light appears dark and dark appears light.
B
The area of sharpest focus in a photograph.
C
The area and time that the photograph is exposed to light.
D
The area of a photograph produced by light falling on a light sensitive surface.
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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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portraiture
B
Social Documentation
C
montage
D
photo essay
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The photograph above is an example of _______________. This is a darkroom technique to create surreal images.

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straight photography
B
close up
C
montage
D
solarization
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What is a photograph?

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An image created by light falling on a light sensitive surface, usually film.
B
A print in white on a blue ground, often used for copying maps, or architects plans.
C
A devise used to capture an image of a moment in time.
D
An inverted image transferred for a light-sensitive metal plate onto film.
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The photograph above was produced by ______(1)______. The process he/she used is the same process used by ______(2)______ to create ______(3)______.

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(1) Ansel Adams; (2) photographers; (3) persuasive documents
B
(1) Anna Atkins; (2) building inspectors; (3) blueprints
C
(1) Keith Cottingham; (2) mapmakers; (3) different types of maps
D
(1) Anna Atkins; (2) architects; (3) blueprints
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_____________ 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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Close up photographs
B
Montage
C
Portraiture
D
Straight photography
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Straight photography was popularized by ______(1)______, which is ______(2)______.

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(1) Dorothea Lange; (2) 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.
B
(1) Alfred Stieglitz; (2) a form of photography in which pictures are printed directly from the negatives with no cropping or other manipulation.
C
(1) Eddie Adams; (2) a darkroom technique to create surreal images.
D
(1) Margaret Bourke White; (2) a photographic narrative consisting of a series of related images.
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The camera is a relatively new invention, dating back to the ______(1)______. However, the science of photography dates back centuries, with the first example being invented by a scientist around ______(2)______ AD.

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(1) 18th century; (2) 2500
B
(1) 1800s; (2) 1000
C
(1) 1900s; (2) 4500
D
(1) 20th century; (2) 3000
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_____________ are interesting because they keep some of their light-sensitive properties and can therefore appear to be washed out over time. This condition can be reversed, however, by returning it to a dark room.

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Cyanotype
B
Digital Images
C
Daguerreotypes
D
Photogravures
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Dorothea Lange was a photographer/photo journalist during _______________.

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the Great Depression
B
the Vietnam War
C
the Civil War
D
World War II
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In 1861, __________________

A
the first permanent image was created.
B
an Iraqi scientist invented the first example of a camera.
C
daguerreotype was first used, changing the world of photography.
D
the first color photograph was produced.
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In photography, a __________ aperture is well-suited for action photographs.

A
large
B
fast
C
slow
D
small
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The “father of journalism” is known for ___________________

A
rallying for government support for photo journalism during the Revolutionary War.
B
being the first photographer to create a photo essay for the national newspaper.
C
inventing the process of straight photography and the portable dark room.
D
photographing battling scenes during the Civil War.
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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.
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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.
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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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