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78 Cards in this Set
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What does Edward Steichen's "Self Portrait" show him doing?
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stirring emulsion, to show that photography is an art form (pictorialism)
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Who were the most important male photographers at the start of the 20th Century?
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Lewis Hine, George Eastman, Alfred Stieglitz
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Steichen's photos mirror what type of art?
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painting
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Joseph Kyle mimicked what type of art form with his photos?
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etching
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What types of artistic influences were seen on early 20th century photographers?
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Japanese wood cuts, etchings, paintings
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What was George Eastman's reasoning behind making photography something the common person could do?
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If they were willing to pay for their photo to be taken and buy photos, then they might pay for the technology to take photos themselves.
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Name two things that made photography possible for the common man.
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Roll Film and handheld cameras (Brownie)
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Did Kodak publicize that photography was easy for the common person?
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yes
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What did artists try to do after cameras and film was commercialized?
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show that they were different from the snap shooters
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Who wrote and edited Camera Notes?
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Alfred Steiglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz wanted to differentiate the artist (pro and wealthy amateur) from whom?
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the mass consumer
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Who founded the magazine Camera Work?
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Alfred Steiglitz, it set the taste for early 20th century art
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What movement/group did Alfred Steiglitz head up?
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Photo Secessionists
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What three important things did Alfred Stieglitz do?
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founded Camera Work magazine, The Little Galleries of the Photo Secessionists in NY, and split the art world with the Photo Sucessionist movement
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What image is pivotal to Steiglitz's career as a photographer?
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The Steerage
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Why is The Steerage so pivotal for Stieglitz?
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??
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What debate occured within the pages of Camera Work?
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debate between modernism and pictorialism
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The last issue of Camera Work had images by whom?
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Paul Strand
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What two views were prominent in modernism photography?
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up close and up high
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Why was the up high angle used in modernism?
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to glorify accomplishments of skyscrapers
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The up close angle of modernism photography often created what?
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Abstraction
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What is a vortograph?
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It was created using mirrors, which created a kaleidoscope image, making it more abstract; it was a bridge between pictorialism and the avant-garde
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Who invented the vortograph?
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Coburn
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Who formed the group f64?
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Cunningham and Weston
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What did f64 strive for?
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precisionism
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When does Pictorialism die?
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WWI
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Whose photography would have gone unnoticed, except for the fact that Abbott printed his negatives after he died?
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Eugene Atget
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What types of photos did Eugene Atget take?
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Paris city streets for painters to paint from; usually abandoned
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What was Roentgen famous for?
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inventing the x-ray
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Edward Muybridge is famous for his studies of what?
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motion
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Who invented the x-ray?
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Roentgen
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What animal did Muybridge do a motion study of, changing the way artists painted animals running?
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horse
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Why is the accuracy of Muybridge's motion studies questioned?
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he always took 24 pictures, but then he would print the series with 36, so he added photos
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Who did motion studies dealing with workers on an assembly line?
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Frank Gilbreth
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What is a zoatrope?
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a "moving picture" made up of multiple pictures that get spun on a wheel
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What are the Lumiere brothers famous for?
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inventing the first motion picture camera and inventing autochrome
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What did Levy Hill claim that he did?
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made a color photograph in 1851, with his process called heliochrome, however it was found later that it was hand-painted
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Who took the first true color photo?
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James Clark Maxwell
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Who did motion studies dealing with workers on an assembly line?
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Frank Gilbreth
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What is a zoatrope?
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a "moving picture" made up of multiple pictures that get spun on a wheel
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What are the Lumiere brothers famous for?
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inventing the first motion picture camera and inventing autochrome
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What did Levy Hill claim that he did?
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made a color photograph in 1851, with his process called heliochrome, however it was found later that it was hand-painted
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Who took the first true color photo?
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James Clark Maxwell
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What was the first true color photograph of?
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ribbon, done with additive process (rgb)
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Who patented the first line screen?
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John Jolly (sp?)
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The Lumiere brothers used potato starch for what?
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To make autochromes (color photos)
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Who did the first subtractive process with color film?
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Hauron
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The process by Hauron for color photography used what?
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carbon
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What company invented the color negative?
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Agfa
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Color photos were only used for commercial purposes until what year?
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1976, William Eggleston's photography as art in an exhibition
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What art movement came after pictorialism?
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avant-garde
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Who invented the Leica?
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Barnak, 1913
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What became the most popular camera in the early 20th century?
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Leica
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What camera did Weegee make popular?
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SpeedGraphic
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What was the first photo newspaper?
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New York Daily, 1919
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What camera did Weegee make popular?
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SpeedGraphic
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What was the first picture magazine?
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BIZ
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What was the first photo newspaper?
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New York Daily, 1919
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The first documentary story printed was about what?
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monks, photos were by ???
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What was the first picture magazine?
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BIZ
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How did Europe use photography different that America? (at the time of the Nazis)
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to promote political agendas, subjectivity, common objects photographed as art
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The first documentary story printed was about what?
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monks, photos were by ???
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How did Europe use photography different that America? (at the time of the Nazis)
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to promote political agendas, subjectivity, common objects photographed as art
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What was Hartfield known for?
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satarizing the Nazi party through photo collages in a communism newspaper
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Where did Dada start?
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Zurich
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What type of art is the female artist Hoch known for?
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making collages and scrapbooks with pictures cut out of papers, magazines, etc
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Who photographed Duchamp's "Fountain"?
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Stieglitz
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How did the Surrealist photographers create photos?
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the often used mirrors and other things to distort their images
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Name three avant garde movements in the early 20th century.
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Surrealism, Constructivism, Dada
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Who are three photo montag Dada artists?
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Heartfield, Grosz, Hoch
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Straight photography in America was championed by what publication/artist?
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Camera Works, finial issue contained Paul Strand's work
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What type of photographers were these peopl: Lewis Hine, Jacob Riis, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange.
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straight photography
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What is a schadograph?
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Made by Christian Schad, photo montag and collage with photograms made without a negative
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What is the name of the art theory that is bound in the idea of objects as structures consisting on space, volume, color, and light; content and form are one; meaning is the form?
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Constructivism (it is the glory of production and consumption)
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Self Portrait by Elle L (last name?) was important why?
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It renounced all self-expression and linked art to industry in shaping everyday life.
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Who said "The illiteracy of the future will be an ignorance of photography"?
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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Who photographed the "German Type" by showing them with their work clothes, tools, etc?
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August Sander
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Henri-Cartier Bresson is considered to be the father of modern what?
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photojournalism
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