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On Photography | Quiz

Susan Sontag
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On Photography | Quiz

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1)

What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag? (from Melancholy Objects)

Nihilist.
Impressionist.
Realist.
Surrealist.
2)

The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________. (from The Image-World)

2001.
2004.
2005.
1999.
3)

Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes. (from Melancholy Objects)

Extreme.
Abject.
True.
Duly earned.
4)

Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so. (from Melancholy Objects)

Dramatic.
Useful.
Dark.
Important.
5)

Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________. (from Melancholy Objects)

Government.
Truth.
Morality.
Change.
6)

The very act of ____________ something new casts it as something new and beautiful. (from The Heroism of Vision)

Finding.
Photographing.
Naming.
Exposing.
7)

The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing. (from The Image-World)

Exciting.
Funny.
Violent.
Banal.
8)

Photographs in China are seen as another extension of _____________, which is why the film was misunderstood. (from The Image-World)

Honesty.
Military involvement.
Morality.
Cover-up.
9)

How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched. (from The Heroism of Vision)

Colors.
Repetition.
Subjects.
Over exposure.
10)

Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world. (from Melancholy Objects)

Teachers.
Students.
Scientists.
Moralists.
11)

Photographs are presented as sophisticated ____________, though they are made with little more than a click of a button. (from Photographic Evangels)

Masterpieces.
Frames.
Sculptures.
Renditions.
12)

The question becomes whether photography is a ___________ process of documentation via machine, or not. (from The Heroism of Vision)

Scientific.
Truthful.
Automatic.
Honored.
13)

The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor. (from Melancholy Objects)

Pressure.
Attention.
Pity.
Power.
14)

Most - nearly all - __________ images are photographs, according to Sontag's findings. (from The Image-World)

Authoritative.
Surrealistic.
Effective.
Great.
15)

Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag. (from Melancholy Objects)

Confusing.
Death.
Stationary.
Frozen in time.
16)

Some champion total self ____________ for the photographer in order to capture subjects in the way that makes sense for an audience. (from Photographic Evangels)

Effacement.
Understanding.
Control.
Aggrandizement.
17)

The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag. (from The Image-World)

Society.
Art.
Expansion.
Literature.
18)

"_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is." (from The Heroism of Vision)

Wealth.
School.
Baby.
Family.
19)

The collection of photographs is carried to the extreme in ____________, where these images are horded. (from The Image-World)

Tourism.
Pornography.
Families.
Magazines.
20)

In China, photography is subsumed by the state _______________ apparatus, according to the book's findings. (from The Image-World)

Moral.
Propaganda.
Christian.
Government.
21)

However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag. (from The Heroism of Vision)

Happy.
Innocent.
Dense.
Cliche.
22)

Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography. (from Photographic Evangels)

Technique.
Alignment.
Structure.
Approach.
23)

Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter. (from The Heroism of Vision)

Watery.
Just.
Artistic.
Truthful.
24)

And others believe that all proficient photographers must metaphysically ________ the object which they are photographing. (from Photographic Evangels)

Connect with.
Understand.
Become.
Link to.
25)

What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter? (from Melancholy Objects)

Joyful.
Anecdotal.
Dated.
Irrational.
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