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52 Cards in this Set
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- 3rd side (hint)
What is this? |
A Camera Obscura ~ Precursor to cameras |
This one should be far from obscure-a to you if you want to pass this test-a. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What is its significance? |
1. Joseph Nicephore Niepce 2. It's the first direct positive image |
The photo that started it all! Taken by a very "Nice" guy. |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Louis Jacques Daguerre 2. He created the daguerreotype |
The dude who named the thing after himself. |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? 3. Who took this photo of him? |
1. John Herschel 2. He invented... - hyposulphite, a.k.a. "fix" - the cyanotype 3. Julia Margaret Cameron |
He was probably a big fan of chocolate, and the color blue. The person who took his photo was a lady known for her "sloppy" style! |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Henry Fox Talbot 2. He invented the calotype |
His last name sorta rhymes with the thing he invented. The first syllable does, anyway. |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Gustave Le Gray 2. He... - made the first "sandwiched" images - took photos of seascapes where the sky and sea were evenly exposed - took photos of the military in Châlons - sailed with Alexandre Dumas |
G.LG., he ate a lot of sandwiches. Er, I mean, he MADE a lot of sandwiches. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about them (hint)? |
1. The Bisson Brothers 2. They took photos of the Alps in extreme weather conditions ~ Purposely made people look dwarfed, or like ants, in their photography |
They just might have seen some bisson on all of the cold adventures they took. |
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Who took this photo? |
Charles Negre - Also took photos of gargoyles in Notre-Dame |
His last name sort of sounds like a racial slur-word. Do not say that word, it's a bad word. Bad. |
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1. What process was used to make this image? 2. What medium would you print this negative image onto? |
1. Glass collodion 2. Sensitized albumen paper |
It's see-through! You can figure out the first part. But I can't think of a hint for the second part... I'm sorry. I'm only albhuman. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Roger Fenton 2. He took photos of the Crimean War in a public-relations, "glorified" manner |
His name rhymes with Dodger Shmentin. He took photos of war, but not in a very critical way... |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Matthew Brady 2. He... - took photos of Abraham Lincoln that helped him in the election - took photos of the brutality of war without glorifying it |
... you Might sAy That he phoTograpHEd War and its BRutality in An 'honest' way, Depending on how You look at it. |
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1. What photo-duo was this guy part of? 2. What's significant about this duo? |
1. Southworth & Hawes 2. They... - considered themselves artists - took expensive and beautiful daguerreotypes of people |
Downvalue & Laughs. Focused their efforts on those who lived the high life, structured their practices accordingly. |
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1. What photo-duo took this picture? 2. What's significant about this duo? |
1. Adamson & Hill 2. They... - took photos of peasants - mostly took photos outside, staged to look like inside - mostly made calotypes due to their cheapness |
Evedaughter & Mountain. Focused their efforts on those who lived more frugal lives, structured their practices accordingly. They took inside-out photos! |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Nadar 2. He... - took aerial photos in hot air balloons - took photos of celebrities - took photos of the catacombs beneath France - owned a lavish studio with his name (literally) on it |
Took photos 'above, and below'. His one-word name was plastered in big letters on the front of his lavish studio. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Julia Margaret Cameron 2. She... - was the first widely-recognized female photographer - was criticized for her "sloppy" style - was all about "mood" and "feeling" in her portraits |
J.M.C., was the first of her kind, felt like taking sloppy photos. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Dodgson 2. He... - took photos of the Liddell sisters and Lord Tennyson's son - wrote "Alice in Wonderland" |
I heard this guy was a bad driver, his car rolled down a hill after he made a bad turn. I know he also took photos of kids and wrote a book for kids. |
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1. What art movement was this painting born from? 2. What was that movement about? |
1. The Expansionist movement 2. Westward expansion |
The floating lady in the painting is moving West, so maybe that means something... |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Carleton Watkins 2. He... - produced some of the first photos of Yosemite that were seen in the East - made 30 mammoth plates - made 100 stereograph views |
His body of work was huge, mammoth even. Carl! |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Eadweard Muybridge 2. He... - made a "movie"/graph sequence (pictured on this flash card) which proved that all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground when it runs - made contributions to science with his "movie" sequence method ~ invented the "zoopraxiscope" to make his movie-sequences ~ murdered his wife's lover, got off without jailtime |
He had a weard name, and he bridged the gap between photography and science. His life was a sequence of very strange events. |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. George Eastman 2. He... - founded Kodak - made products that marked the beginning of the "snapshot era" - provided the tools that allowed amateur photography to flourish |
George Directiongender. He basically brought photography into the mainstream by starting a certain thing. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Jacob Riis 2. He photographed the impoverished people of Hell's Kitchen |
Might've owned a toupée shop called 'Riises Pieces'. Anyway, he must've liked food a lot, because he spent most of his time in the kitchen. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Lewis Hine 2. He... - used his photography to incite social change - prompted the introduction of new child labor laws |
Encouraged people to get off their Hine-ies and make better child labor laws. |
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1. What is the name of this photo? 2. Who took it? 3. What's significant about him? |
1. "The Two Ways of Life" 2. Oscar Rejlander 3. He is often called 'the father of art photography' |
Think about the duality of the image: therein lies its name. O.R., "the father of art photography", took this image. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Henry Peach Robinson 2. He... - mastered the process of making combined/composite photos - was one of the most successful photographers of the 19th century |
This guy's peachy photos weren't a combined effort: he became successful on his own! |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Edward Curtis 2. He... - took romanticized photos of Native American people - didn't always have his subjects wear tribe-accurate attire |
E.C., took nice photos of a certain people, but didn't always get their clothing right. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Anne Brigman 2. She took many nudes in the Desolation Wilderness of California |
She took photos in places that were far from desolate. |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What did it mean to him? 3. What's significant about him? |
1. Alfred Stieglitz 2. He thought it did the best job of representing himself as a photographer 3. He founded the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which was later called the 291 Gallery ~ He married Georgia O'Keeffe and took many photos of her |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. Who took this photo? 3. What is the significance of this photo? |
1. J.P. Morgan 2. Edward Steichen 3. This photo... - appeared to show Morgan holding a knife, though it was really just the arm of a chair - depicted the 'ruthless' character that some attributed to Morgan - was hated by Morgan at first, but he later came to prefer it |
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1. What group did these photographers belong to? - Ansel Adams - Imogen Cunningham - Edward Weston 2. What's significant about that group? |
1. Group f/64 2. The work that came out of the group was a West Coast rendition of the work present in Stieglitz's 291 Gallery |
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1. The story behind this woman's nudes is depicted in what film? 2. What is the name of this woman? 3. What is the name of the person who photographed her? |
1. "Eloquent Nude" 2. Charis Wilson 3. Edward Weston |
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1. What is the name of this photo? 2. Who took it? |
1. "Migrant Mother" 2. Dorothea Lange ~ The name of the "Migrant Mother" is Florence Thompson |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Walker Evans 2. He... - shot images for the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" - took a photo (the one on this flash card) that became controversial due to its staged nature |
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1. What is the name of this photo? 2. Who took it? |
1. "Dust Storm" 2. Arthur Rothstein |
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1. What is the name of this photo? 2. What painting is it based on? 3. Who took the photo? |
1. "American Gothic" 2. A painting also called "American Gothic" by Grant Wood 3. Gordon Parks ~ Gordon Parks was very successful in the genre of fashion photography |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Robert Capa 2. He took many war photos, including ones of the Invasion of Normandy |
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1. What photo group did Robert Capa belong to? 2. What's significant about that group? |
1. Magnum 2. They were... - a group of individuals making independent work: they had no bosses - cooperative: they shared their stories and works among themselves - seen by themselves as both artistic and journalistic |
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1. Who curated the photos in this art exhibition? 2. What was it called? 3. What was significant about this exhibition? |
1. Edward Steichen 2. "The Family of Man" 2. It... - was the first art exhibition that consisted entirely of photographs - was unveiled at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC |
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1. From what group did this photo come out of? 2. What's significant about that group? |
1. New York Photo League 2. They... - were blacklisted by the Attorney General for being "totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive." - faced damaged reputations, loss of work, and criminal investigation after being blacklisted |
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1. Who was this guy? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Weegee, real name Arthur Fellig 2. He took many photos of crime scenes ~ He showed that the crime-scene genre of photography could be artistic |
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1. Who took this image? 2. What book was this image part of? |
1. Robert Frank 2. "The Americans" |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Bruce Davidson 2. He photographed/documented the civil rights movement |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Paul Strand 2. He took a lot of photographs in the genre of "straight photography" ~ His work alluded to the Dadaist art movement going on at the time |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Mary Ellen Mark 2. She... - made a photo-series called "Twins" of twins - made a photo-series called "Prom" of teens in their prom outfits - made a photo-series called "Streetwise" that documented the lives of runaway adolescents ~ "Streetwise" eventually became a movie |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Diane Arbus 2. She took many photos of strange and unusual people in New York ~ Saw the strange people she photographed as "aristocrats" |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Richard Avedon 2. He... - took photos of celebrities - used an artistic perspective in his fashion photography |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Irving Penn 2. He... - took beautifully arranged and colorful still lifes - used a portable 'corner' as a background for portraits |
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1. Who made this image? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Barbara Kruger 2. She put bold text onto pop culture iconography ~ She used the relationship between the text and the photo to make a point |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Annie Leibovitz 2. She primarily takes portraits of celebrities ~ Also did those super-photoshopped pictures of actresses as Disney Princesses |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Duane Michals 2. He... - was a pioneer in incorporating text into his images - made photo-sequences that formed a narrative ~ He also poked fun at Cindy Sherman's work by making a character based on her, which he named Sidney Sherman |
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1. What's the name of the person pictured on the right? 2. What's significant about him? |
1. Robert Mapplethorpe 2. He... - took images that were controversial due to their sexual or "obscene" nature - garnered legal action during the Reagan administration as a result of his controversial images |
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Who took this photo? |
Steve McCurry |
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1. Who took this photo? 2. What's significant about her? |
1. Sally Mann 2. She... - took nude photos of her children, which were controversial - compiled many of the nudes of her kids in her book "Immediate Family" |
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