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History of Photography

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Define new vision photography.  What are some of its major characteristics?

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New vision photographers often cited Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage as a source of inspiration.  What new ways of seeing the photographic image did the work exemplify?

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Define the zone system and previsualization.  Who were the inventors of these techniques?   Why were these new methods so influential?

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Identify the formal elements of Edward Weston’s Pepper #30.  What characteristics of the New Vision approach are present in this photo?  How does (or doesn’t) the artist reveal "the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself?"

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Compare and contrast Ansel Adams’ Mount Williamson – Clearing Storm with Frederick Sommer’s Arizona Landscape.  How do the photographers styles, approaches and methods differ?  What event stimulated a change in the way photographers saw the world?  What differences between these two landscape photos signal this shift?

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