Deck 12: Photography and Time-Based Media

Question 1

Sound was introduced into film in what year?

A)1959
B)1927
C)1900
D)1939

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which artist,best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media,created TV Bra for Living Sculpture?

A)Nam June Paik
B)Jerry Uelsmann
C)Sonia Landy Sheridan
D)Eliot Porter

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Known primarily for color photographs of the natural environment, who is the artist of Porch,Provincetown?

A)Eliot Porter
B)Sonia Landy Sheridan
C)Edward Steichen
D)Joel Meyerowitz

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Eadward Muybridge's photographs,like Annie G. ,Cantering,Saddled,are early examples of artists

A)perfecting the medium of photography.
B)capturing an object in motion.
C)using black-and-white photography.
D)using projected motion pictures.

Question 5

According to the artist,Nam June Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture attempted to

A)simulate trashy films of Hollywood.
B)make a careful political statement.
C)embarrass his audience.
D)humanize technology.

Question 6

D.W.Griffith was the first great master of what film process?

A)traveling shots
B)flashback
C)montage
D)editing

Question 7

Perfecting the photographic process,Louis Daguerre,in Le Boulevard du Temple,was able to include what in his photographs?

A)buildings
B)street scenes
C)people
D)motion

Question 8

The subject matter of An-My Lê's Small Wars (ambush I)involves a group of men who meet regularly meet to re-enact the Vietnam War.What is the content?

A)glorification of the conflict
B)calling into question the legacy of the conflict
C)memorializing the American soldiers who died in the conflict
D)memorializing the civilians who were killed during the conflict

Question 9

According to the text,with which of these artistic movements does Jerry N.Uelsmann's Untitled have the most in common?

A)Dadaism
B)Surrealism
C)abstract expressionism
D)impressionism

Question 10

Still images from the film Battleship Potemkin demonstrate the montage technique of which filmmaker?

A)Vladimir Tatlin
B)Lucas Samaras
C)Sergei Eisenstein
D)D)W.Griffith

Question 11

The techniques employed by Jerry N.Uelsmann's in photographs like Untitled can best be described as

A)impasto painting.
B)digital manipulation.
C)collage.
D)installation.

Question 12

The wet-plate collodion photographic process was introduced by

A)Herschel Walker.
B)William Henry Fox Talbot.
C)Margaret Cameron.
D)Frederick Archer.

Question 13

In filmmaking,each unbroken,continuous sequence of movie frames with the camera still rolling is called a

A)take.
B)shot.
C)roll.
D)pan.

Question 14

All of the following describe Annie Leibovitz's photograph of Karen Finley except which?

A)It is modeled on a famous late-19^th century photograph by Edgar Degas.
B)It utilizes the complementary colors of red and green to enhance the composition and "feel" of the photo.
C)It presents an aggressively feminist public figure in a private,intimate moment.
D)Its composition is intentionally misleading to the viewer.

Question 15

The device invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world is called

A)film noir.
B)camera vérité.
C)praxiscope.
D)camera obscura.

Question 16

Despite the success of the daguerreotype,the process had its drawbacks,primarily

A)that the image could not be reproduced.
B)that colors were not true to life.
C)that it reproduced poorly in books.
D)the cost of the apparatus.

Question 17

The first American film to fully utilize "every known trick of the filmmaker's trade," resulting in a masterful work,was

A)The Wizard of Oz.
B)Fantasia.
C)Citizen Kane.
D)The Jazz Singer.

Question 18

Who developed the "zone system" in photography?

A)Louis Daguerre
B)William Henry Fox Talbot
C)Ansel Adams and Fred Archer
D)Henri Cartier-Bresson

Question 19

The drawings by William Cameron Menzies are examples of a vital part of the film-making process called

A)action photos.
B)dailys.
C)storyboards.
D)frames.

Question 20

What is defined as the size of the opening in the lens when exposing a photograph to light?

A)ISO
B)aperture
C)zone system
D)resolution

Question 21

Dodging and burning are darkroom processes by which the photographer can manipulate which aspect of a photo?

A)texture
B)color
C)value
D)composition

Question 22

Nam June Paik was an innovator in which of these media?

A)photography
B)film
C)video sculpture
D)ready-mades

Question 23

Which publication served as a major outlet for American photographers from 1936 onward?

Question 24

What was the process that formed the basis of modern photography called?

Question 25

When and where were the earliest photographs developed?

A)in 20^th century America
B)in 15^th century Italy
C)in China,2000 years ago
D)in the 19^th century in France and England

Question 26

In film,what kind of shot occurs when the camera sweeps across the terrain and covers a wide area of view?

Question 27

The idea of film as art flourished after World War 2 with the likes of auteurs such as

A)Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges.
B)Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman.
C)Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
D)Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson.

Question 28

Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein contributed a powerful visual editing technique to filmmaking that used widely disparate images to create a fast-paced multifaceted image.What is this technique called?

Question 29

Discuss the early history of photography,noting those who first used the medium and the first photographic processes.

Question 30

What are some of the functions of photography?

Question 31

What is unique about the 1960-70s performances of Trisha Brown's dance company?

A)They danced in the nude.
B)They danced underwater.
C)They danced on walls while suspended from the ceiling.
D)They incorporated the latest cutting-edge technology.

Question 32

Robert Rauschenberg's performance art can be said to be disjunctive and almost random.Which of these best describes the real value in his performances?

A)They give the "players" an opportunity to get a lot of exercise.
B)They are based in traditional art practices.
C)They challenge our senses and our expectations about the nature of art itself.
D)They involve casts of thousands.

Question 33

Was photography accepted as a legitimate art form in the nineteenth century? Why or why not?

Question 34

What is computer-generated imagery and why is it important for the future of the camera arts?

Question 35

Walt Disney is best known for creating which type of films?

Question 36

What 19^th century photographer is responsible for developing the "calotype" process,which is the basis for modern photography?

A)Louis Daguerre
B)Richard Beard
C)Alfred Stieglitz
D)William Henry Fox Talbot

Question 37

How does the use of the "camera obscura" differ from contemporary photography?

A)it is not as realistic
B)it reflected but did not "capture" the image
C)it is not as realistic
D)it reflected but did not "capture" the image

Question 38

Choose an example from the chapter and discuss the tension between form and content in a photographic work.