Exam 9: Camera and Computer Arts

Trace the history of debate over whether photography is a fine art. Analyze three photographs in relation to this debate, discussing the photographers' intentions and their relationship to this debate.

The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:

________ is closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz's assertion that for photography to be an art, it should be true to its own nature.

Artists like Peter Campus became interested in video because:

Consider Daguerre's Le Boulevard du Temple. Discuss the reason that this image is important to the history of photography and the difficulties inherent in the production of this image.

The work of Andreas Gursky exemplify the photographer's:

A major difference between the work of a "pure" or "straight" photographer, such as Alfred Stieglitz, and the work of a documentary photographer, such as Dorothea Lange, is:

Discuss how editing emerged as fundamental to filmmaking and give an example of a film, and director, demonstrating the development and technique of film editing.

A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a:

A(n) _________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script.

Artists primarily used the camera obscura to:

Andy Warhol's film Empire:

Man Ray created mysterious images, called _________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera to record them.