Chapter 9: Photography

What was unusual about “rayographs”?

• The film was double exposed.

• The subjects did not know they were being photographed.

• The photographs were always exhibited.

• No camera or lens was used.

What was the drawback to the camera obscura?

• It was expensive to purchase.

• It could not preserve or copy an image.

• It needed several people to operate.

• It was hard to focus.

Which contemporary photographer’s work comes closest to the function of documentary photography?

• Trevor Paglen

• Susan Derges

• Jane and Louise Wilson

• Binh Danh

What distinguishes Jeff Wall’s Boy Falls from Tree as an example of photography used as an art form?

• the uniqueness of digital prints

• the intensity of the color palette

• the moralizing subject matter

• the large format

What strategy helped Alfred Stieglitz promote photography as a legitimate art form in the early twentieth century?

• He exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Modern Art.

• He manipulated his photographs to imitate popular styles in painting.

• He made portraits of famous actors and actresses.

• He included essays on modern art in Camera Work.

What technical element accounts for the visible details seen throughout Jane and Louise Wilson’s photograph?

• the mist released before shooting the photograph

• the photograph’s exposure time

• the digital processing

• the 6-foot-square format

What do these two contemporary photographs have in common?

• underlying social commentary

• photo essays

• interest in the natural landscape

• experimentation with photographic processes

Which contemporary photographer uses a process called chlorophyll printing?

• Trevor Paglen

• Susan Derges

• Binh Danh

• James Welling

How did Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s process differ from that of the early camera obscura?

• It required the use of mirrors to set the image right-side-up.

• It was unable to show stationary figures and inanimate objects.

• It was made using a metal plate on which the image was fixed.

• It allowed the photographer to work indoors or in low light.

How does James Welling increase viewer knowledge about his works like 9812 when they are exhibited?

• He does demonstrations of his process.

• He holds workshops.

• He includes explanatory videos.

• He makes booklets available so they can understand the process.