Art Appreciation Ch. 9

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The earliest written record that hs come down to us of the principle behind photography is from a Chinese philosopher named_____, who lived during the 5th century bce

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Mo Ti

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____noticed that light passing through a pinhole opening into a darkened chamber would form an exact view of the world outside, but upside down.

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Mo Ti

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Early in the 11th century ce the Arab mathematician and physicist Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham, known in the West as ____, set up an experiment in a dark room in which light from several candles passed through a pinhole in a partition, projecting images of the candle flames onto a surface on the other side.

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Alhazen

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Who deduced that light travels in straight lines and that the human eye worked along this same principle: Life reflected from objects passes through the narrow opening of the iris, projecting an image of the outside world onto a surface in the dark interior.

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Alhazen

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It was not until the _____ that a practical devise was developed to harness those principles. It was known as the ____ ____, Latin for "____ ____"

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Renaissance, camera obscura, dark room

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What does the illustration in "The Great Art of Light and Show" published in 1646 depict?

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An elaborate version of a portable camera obscura.

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Who is considered as the first creator of a photograph?

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Joseph Niceophore Niepce

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Joseph Niceophore Niepce, working with a specially coated ____ ____ in the camera boscura, manged in 1826 to record a fuzzy version of the view from his window after an exposure of eight hours.

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pewter plate

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It was ___ who in 1837 recorded an image in his studio that was clear and sharp, by methods that others could duplicate easily.

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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

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Daguerre's light-sensitive surface was a copper plated coated with silver iodide, and he named his invention the _____.

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daguerreotype

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Photographer of "Le Boulevard du Temple"

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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

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What is "Le Boulevard du Temple" an example of?

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Daguerreotype

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Yet for all its early success, the daguerreotype was ultimately a blind alley for photography. The process produces a ____ image, an image in which light and dark values appear correctly. This image is unique and cannot be reproduced. The plate is the photograph. The future of photograph instead lay with technology that produced a ____ image one in which light and dark values were reversed.

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negative, positive

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Photographer of "Julia Jackson"

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Julia Margaret Cameron

Front 15

In 1888 an American named _____ developed a camera called the ___ that changed photography forever. Unlike earlier cameras, it was lightweight and handheld, which meant it could be taken anywhere.

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George Eastman, Kodak

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The Kodak and cameras like it opened photography up to ____, and it quickly became a popular hobby.

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amateurs

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Photographer of "Crow Camp"

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Richard Throssel

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The first important conflict to be documented in pohtography was the:

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American Civil War

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Around 1900, the first process for ____ ____ (high-speed printing of photographs along with type) came into being, and with it a new concept of photojournalism

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photomechanical reproduction

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Photographer of "Migrant Mother"

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Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange was sent by the ____ to record the conditions of the Great Depression across the nation.

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Photographer of "A Family, Kamathipura, Mumbai, Maharastra"

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Raghubir Singh

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Photographer of "Fading Away"

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Henry Peach Robinson

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Photographer of "The Steerage"

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Photographer of: "Autumn Tree against Cathedra Rocks, Yosemite"

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Ansel Adams

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Dada

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was formed in 1916 as a reaction to the unprecedented slaughter of WWI, which was then being fought. The word itself has no meaning, for, faced with the horror of mechanized killing and the corruption of the societies that allowed it, Dada refused to make sense in traditional ways.

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Artist of: "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through Germany's Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch"

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Hannah Hoch

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Hannah Hoch belonged to the art movement called

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Dada

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Another artist formed by the ideas of Dada was:

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Emmanuel Radnitzky "Man Ray"

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Man Ray invented a technique he called the ____.

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rayograph (or rayogram)

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Creator of "Champs delicieux, second rayogram"

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Man Ray

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It was not until the ___ that color began to be widely used, and then only in advertising.

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1930s

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Photographer of "Untitled #123"

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Cindy Sherman

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Artist of "Shanghai"

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Andreas Gursky

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Artist of "Substratum 12 III"

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Thomas Ruff

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Thomas Ruff used images taken from Japanese ___ and ____ and layers the images one on top of the other, making them difficult to decipher individually.

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manga, anime

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Photographer of "Horse Galloping"

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Eadweard Muybridge

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In 1888 the American ____ introduced celluloid film, which made it possible to string images together.

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George Eastman

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It was in ___ laboratory, in 1894, that technicians created what was apparently the first genuine motion picture. Lasting only a few seconds, the film was made on celluloid. It was called: "_____"

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Thomas Edison's, Fred Ott's Sneeze

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Two Frenchmen, brothers appropriately named ____, who in 1895 succeeded in building a workable film projector. In December of that year, they held the first commercial film screening in history, showing a program of ten short films to a paying audience in a large Paris cafe.

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Lumiere

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Who made the film "A Trip to the Moon" in 1902. One of the first science-fiction films ever made.

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George Melies

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One of the pioneers of animation in the US was ____. Before turning to animation, he was already famous for his innovative comic strip "Little Nemo", which he began drawing for the New York Daily Herald in 1905.

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Winsor McCay

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Winsor McCay made several short animated features, but his most famous creation was _______.

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Gertie the Trained Dinosaur

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One of the most influential early masters of editing was the Soviet Russian filmmaker ______. He became just as interested int he expressive possibilities of editing, including changing the rhythm of how quickly one shot succeeded another, breaking a single action down into several shots, and alternating shots of different subjects so that viewers would understand a symbolic connection between them.

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Sergei Eisentstein

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Many of Eistestein's techniques can be seen in _____, a 1925 film that became an international hit.

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Battleship Potemkin

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During the 1920s, the expression "____" came into use, usually to indicate an independent movie that did not conform to popular storytelling techniques or aim to please a mass audience.

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art cinema

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An ______ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style, just as a traditional artist's paintings or sculptures are.

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auteur

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One of the first New Wave films to appear was _____ "Breathless"

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Jean-Luc Godard's

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___ was one of the leading artists of the Pop art movement during the 1960s.

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Andy Warhol

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Who filmed the Empire State Building for over six hours, from dusk until 3 am and slowed the speed down, producing a three hour film.

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Andy Warhol

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Artists also began to use film to document actions or activities that they were proposing as art. One of the most influential artists to do this was:

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Bruce Nauman

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One of the first artists to work with video was ___

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Nam June Paik

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One of Name June Paik's best-known early works is _____

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TV Buddha

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Artist of "Third Tape"

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Peter Campus

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Artist of "Women without Men"

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Shirin Neshat

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Artist of "Self Playing Bowling Games"

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Cory Arcangel

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Creator of "Screening Circle"

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Andy Deck

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Creator of "i.Mirror"

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Cao Fei