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42 Cards in this Set
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Name two photo organizations
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Photo League and Magnum
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What magazine dominated documentary photography?
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LIFE
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What were the three most important things concerning photography in the 1950s?
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The Family of Man Exhibition, Aperture Magazine, Robert Frank's The Americans
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Who founded Aperture Magazine?
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Minor White
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What was going on in the world during the time that documentary photography was booming in America?
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Cold War
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The first issue of LIFE magazine showed what on the cover and who took the photo?
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Fort Peck Dam, by Margaret Bourke-White
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What year did LIFE magazine come out?
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1936
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Where did the first picture magazine start?
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Germany
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What was the first picture magazine in the US?
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Fortune, followed by LIFE
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What technological advances allowed for the production of the picture magazine?
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Fast drying inks, rotary press, cheap coated papers that were thick
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What types of photos did LIFE feature?
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lifestyle, family-centered, did not show dead bodies, just wounded, it was presented through the eyes of the heros
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LIFE magazine was presented through whose eyes?
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the eyes of the heros
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LIFE magazine was so sugarcoated because of who?
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advertisers
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Did the pages of LIFE have more pictures or text?
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pictures
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The last weekly issue of LIFE ran when?
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1972
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Who satirized Western consumerism in a collage in 1956?
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Richard Hamilton
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Name two series Margaret Bourke-White did
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floods on Mississippi River and gold mining in South Africa (there are others)
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Who did the Nurse Midwife series and the photo essay of Pittsburg?
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Eugene Smith
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What was Eugene Smith's most famous series?
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the village of Minamata, Japan (mercury poisoning from water)
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Who photographed Flavio da Silva, which helped him to get money to be cured of TB?
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Gordon Parks
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What famous African American did Gordon Parks do a series on?
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Muhammad Ali
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Photographers avoided taking certain photographs because of what public figure during the Cold War?
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McCarthy
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What was the intent of The Family of Man?
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to show that the whole world was one family; it was capitalist propaganda
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Who put together The Family of Man?
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Edward Steichen
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Name three photographers who had photos in The Family of Man.
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Dorothea Lange, Robert Capa, Eugene Smith (there are many others)
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What show was important because it put photography in museums?
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Family of Man
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Robert Frank did what as a response to the Family of Man series?
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The Americans series; showed unglorified view of America, challenged American capitalism
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Who wrote the introduction for The Americans by Robert Frank?
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Jack Kerouac
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Who started "street photography"?
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Walker Evans
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What type of photos did Robert Frank do?
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social landscape or the snapshot aesthetic
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Who viewed photography as a spiritual quest, with a subject matter of a photo with its equivilent of emotional and spiritual experience?
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Minor White
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What special type of film did Minor White use?
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infrared
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What were the two main camera's that came out in the 1950s?
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Polaroid land camera and Hassleblad 1000F
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Name three expression of inner vision photographers.
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Walter Chapell, Minor White, Wynn Bullock (there are others)
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Name three new vision/ new bahaus school of design photographers.
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Joseph Jachna, Nathan Lerner, Moholy-Nagy (there are others)
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Name three social landscape/snapshot aesthetic photographers.
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Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Bill Owens (there are others)
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Who was the MOMA curator of photography after Stieglitz?
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John Szarkowski
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What was the first university to add a photo department?
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University of Iowa
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Minor White presented his photos how?
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In a sequence
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Who wanted light to be studied as an essential form?
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Lalo-Moholy-Nagy
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What are street photographers of the 1950s doing?
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photographing more for inner expression than for social change
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What did Lee Friedlander do in all of his photographs?
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he appeared in them somehow (shadow etc)
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