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This photography by Jacob Riis, entitled, Sleeping Children. He was a photographer in New York City in the early 1900s who used his camera and skills to capture images in an effort to fuel change for the poor. This type of photography is called __________________.

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portraiture
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Social Documentation
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montage
D
photo essay
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Choose the answer that is most accurate and true. What is photojournalism?

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A photographic narrative series consisting of a series of related images.
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A report of recorded facts about the world to provide others with information.
C
A wall display to show the latest and best trends.
D
A darkroom technique to create surreal images.
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As was done with the photo above, photojournalism has allowed us to record not only facts and information, but also record __________________

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political changes as they are happening.
B
people's ages and physical features, which are important to understanding any situation.
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the feelings and emotions that only a visual image can show.
D
changes in people's perceptions just before a change in culture occurs.
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The Sabattier effect is _____________________

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a picture that includes the full face or another feature with much detail.
B
a darkroom technique to create surreal images, which is made by re-exposing a partially developed print to light during the processing.
C
a printing process in which an image is photographed through a screen on to a sensitized printing plate that after development is etched.
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a process of combining several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture. This is done by blocking out certain parts during processing, while in the dark room.
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Straight photography was popularized by ______(1)______, which is ______(2)______.

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(1) Dorothea Lange; (2) a process of combining several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture. This is done by blocking out certain parts during processing, while in the dark room.
B
(1) Alfred Stieglitz; (2) a form of photography in which pictures are printed directly from the negatives with no cropping or other manipulation.
C
(1) Eddie Adams; (2) a darkroom technique to create surreal images.
D
(1) Margaret Bourke White; (2) a photographic narrative consisting of a series of related images.
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___________ is a picture that includes the full face or another feature with much detail.

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Portraiture
B
Photo essay
C
Montage
D
Close up
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Examine the photographic image above. Which of the following is true?

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This is an example of a portraiture because the artist has recorded facts about the world to provide others with information.
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This is an example of a montage because the artist has captured the likeness of a person through photography, usually in great detail of the facial expression.
C
This is an example of a montage because the artist has combined several distinct images to produce a blended or combined picture.
D
This is an example of a portraiture because the artist has created surreal images, which by re-exposing a partially developed print to light during the processing.
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Dorothea Lange was a photographer/photo journalist during _______________.

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the Great Depression
B
the Vietnam War
C
the Civil War
D
World War II
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The photograph above is an example of _______________. This is a darkroom technique to create surreal images.

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straight photography
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close up
C
montage
D
solarization
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Margaret Bourke White is famous for her photographic essays of WWII. White took this photo (above) entitled, The Living Dead, of German men looking at a group of concentration camp prisoners (although we cannot see the prisoners) after the camp was liberated. When she was asked by a LIFE magazine writer about the picture, she replied, "Dead men will have indeed died in vain, if living men refuse to look at them." What did she mean?

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If the living do not examine past mistakes, in particular with war and hatred, then the ones who died because of these things will have died for no reason.
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People must be made to feel guilty for their involvement with hate, if things are ever to change in the world and people are ever going to live in harmony.
C
In order to understand death, people have to see it with their own eyes.
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If the living men refuse to look at the dead, and the dead are only seen by the women who bury them, then the dead’s accomplishments cannot be remembered.

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