Chapter 8: Imaging

Test Bank

Multiple Choice Questions

1.The word ______is derived from Greek roots meaning "to write with light."
A. photography* B. image C. portrait

2.Film pioneer D. W. Griffith is credited with making the film camera ______.
A. mobile* B. 16 fps C. fixed

3.Telephoto lenses magnify faraway objects and tend to collapse the ______between distant objects that recede from us.
A. clarity B. spaces* C. contrast

4.There are two basic kinds of color film: color ______film and color negative film.
A. reversal* B. movie C. digital

5.Jeremy Blake's storyboard for Winchester combines film, drawings, and ______-generated imagery.
A. television B. computer* C. daguerreotype

6.______is credited with performing the first successful experiments in cinematography.
A. Brady B. Lumière C. Muybridge*

7.The daguerreotype began as an effort between two inventors, but was perfected by ______.
A. Niépce B. Daguerre* C. Talbot

8.Bitumen was the light-sensitive substance used by______.
A. Niépce* B. Daguerre C. Talbot

9.In ______editing multiple cameras are used during the progress of the same scene or story location—then shots are selected from various vantage points and projected in sequence.
A. parallel B. flashback C. narrative*

10.The daguerreotype image was laterally ______.
A. confusing B. reversed* C. colored

11.In 1907, Louis Lumière introduced the ______process.
A. dry plate B. digital C. autochrome*

12.Gaspard Felix Tournachon was known by the name ______.
A. Nadar* B. Cameron C. Bernhardt

13.His dog, Man Ray, was a principal subject.
A. Skoglund B. Wegman* C. Sherman

14.Dress designers began to ask her to use their haute couture in her photographs.
A. Skoglund B. Wegman C. Sherman*

15.In the ______, editing permits the audience glimpses of the future.
A. flashback B. close-ups C. flashforward*

16.He proved that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once during parts of the gallop.
A. Muybridge* B. Blake C. Paik

17.Buckhouse and Brubach used a(n) ______to record a "memo" of a tap dancer.
A. movie camera B. PDA* C. Etch-a-Sketch

18.Who said, "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known"
A. Warhol B. Skoglund C. Disney*

19.In Three Mountains, Japanese artist ______incorporated video into a pyramidal sculptural piece.
A. Kubota* B. Paik C. Karanek

20.Who said, "Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaning."
A. Disney B. Lange C. Weston*

Completion/Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

21.The camera ______could be a box or an actual room with a small hole that admits light through one wall.
{{obscura}}

22.Alfred Stieglitz believed that photography should serve as an outlet for the ______inner life of the artist.
{{emotional}}

23.Migrant Mother was a product of Dorothea Lange's camera and the sponsorship of the ______Security Administration, a U.S. government agency.
{{Farm}}

24.As World War II was drawing to an end in Europe, photographer ______arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in time for its liberation.
{{Bourke-White}}

25.Artist Cindy Sherman, a photographer and film maker, adopts diverse ______for her work.
{{personae}}

26.Evolving technology made it possible for photographers to achieve dazzling images such as the one by Harold ______in Fan and Flame Vortices.
{{Edgerton}}

27.Stanley Kubrick said, "A film is—or should be—more like ______than like fiction…."
{{music}}

28.By the 1850s, photographic technology and the demands of a growing middle class came together to create a burgeoning business in ______photography.
{{portrait}}

29.Photographer James van der Zee is well-known for his visual narrative of life in New York's ______.
{{Harlem}}

30.Shirin ______said, "I see my work as a pictorial excursus on the topic of feminism and contemporary Islam…."
{{Neshat}}

31.In ______, a sequence of abruptly alternating images or scenes in a movie conveys associated ideas or the passage of time.
{{montage}}

32.Leni ______made what is considered one of the greatest propaganda films of all time, Triumph of the Will.
{{Riefenstahl}}

33.While many American actors were embattled in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, Ronald ______was making films for the United States that depicted the valor of the Allied soldiers.
{{Reagan}}

34.The Grapes of Wrath is a good example of film as ______commentary.
{{social}}

35.In writing about Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel claimed that his aims were to evoke instinctive reactions of attraction and ______in the audience.
{{repulsion}}

36.Viewers who came to be called "gulf ______" seemed to be addicted to the televising of the Gulf War, the nation's first real video war.
{{potatoes}}

37.Paik's video piece Global Groove flashes fragmented segments of Japanese Pepsi commercials, Korean drummers, a videotaped theater group, poet Allen ______reading from his work, women tap dancers, and a musical piece in which a cellist draws her bow across a man's back.
{{Ginsberg}}

38.Shigeko Kubota said, "My vanishing point is reversed, located behind your ______.
{{brain}}

39.In Getaway #2 Tony ______projects a videotape with a sound track onto the cloth face of a life-size doll.
{{Oursler}}

40.Standard computers generally come with software that enables the user to create ______.
{{illusions}}

Discussion Questions

41.What accounted for the fact that portraiture became such a staple of commercial photography in the middle of the nineteenth century?

42.Pretend that you live in the 1840s and have a friend who has never seen a black and white photograph. You may assume that your friend has seen drawings, prints, and paintings. Inform your friend that you have just seen a photograph for the first time. Describe to your friend what a photograph looks like.

43.Compare and contrast Joe Rosenthal's photograph of marines raising an American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima and Thomas E. Franklin's record of firefighters raising the American flag at Ground Zero.

44.What is the difference between photojournalism and propaganda?

45.What was the chief obstacle to photography's being recognized as an art form?

46.Is video art more like sculpture or more like painting? Explain.

47.Will computer manipulation of images lead to people no longer trust the evidence of images? Carefully explain your answer.

48.Why has video become such an important art medium?

49.What do photography, film, video, and digital arts have in common?

50.Are the early inventions of Niépce, Daguerre, and Talbot the "grandparents" of all of the arts techniques discussed in this chapter? Explain your answer fully.