Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images.
Thumbnail Image
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo CA
1936
Harold E. Edgerton
Milk Drop
1936
Henri Cartier Bresson
Prisoner of War Camp
1945
Exam #2 Study Guide
Exam #2 will be held on April 7 and will cover chapters 4, 5, 9 & pages 84 -98, 160 - 198, 202 -278
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| Artist | Title | Date | Thumbnail Image |
| Oscar G. Rejlander | Two Ways of Life | 1857 | |
| Nadar | Sarah Bernhardt | 1865 | |
| Julia Margaret Cameron | Sappho | c. 1866 | |
| Jacques-Henri Lartigue | My Hydro-glider with Propeller | 1904 | |
| Gertrude Kasebier | Portrait of Miss N. | c. 1902 | |
| Edward Steichen | Moonlight: The Pond | 1906 | |
| Alfred Stieglitz | The Steerage | 1907 | |
| Paul Strand | Wall Street | 1916 | |
| Hannah Hoch | Cut with a Kitchen Knife | 1919 | |
| Man Ray | Ingres' Violin | 1924 | |
| Aleksander Rodchenko | Woman on the Telephone | 1928 | |
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| Hans Bellmer | The Doll | c. 1934 | |
Dorothea Lange |
Migrant Mother, Nipomo CA |
1936 |
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Harold E. Edgerton |
Milk Drop |
1936 |
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Henri Cartier Bresson |
Prisoner of War Camp |
1945 |
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Key Terms Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms. |
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Armory Show |
Film Und Foto |
Photo-Secession |
Autochrome |
Formalism |
Pictorialism |
Avant-garde |
Gallery 291 |
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Bauhaus |
Group f/64 |
Punctum |
Camera Work |
Halftone |
Readymade |
Combination print |
Hand-held camera |
Snapshot |
Dadaism |
Life Magazine |
Straight photography |
Decisive Moment |
Naturalism |
Surrealism |
The Depression |
New Vision |
Theory of sacrifices |
Documentary photography |
Photojournalism |
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Farm Security Administration |
Photomontage |
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People Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms. |
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Charles Baudelaire |
Henry Robinson Luce |
Pablo Picasso |
| Questions to consider |
| What were the 19th century arguments for and against artistic photography? |
| Why were the photographs Two Paths of Life and Fading Away controversial? |
| How did the snapshot photo introduce a new way of seeing the world and the image? |
| What characterized Pictorialist photographs? What purpose did the Pictorialists have for their works? Were they successful in this endeavor? |
| What propmpted Stieglitz's dramatic break with Pictorialism? What new approach did he turn to? How did it differ from Pictorialism? |
| What ideas motivated Dadaism and Surrealism? What were these artists reacting against? |
| What characterizes New Vision images? |