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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

2. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.

3. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

4. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

5. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it unusual to include writing about Walt Whitman in a book about photography?

2. Why did photography come to be seen as a type of copulation with the material world?

3. What is the significance of the title of this particular chapter of this Susan Sontag book?

4. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

5. What did Steichen thus do with his photographs in terms of creating importance with the subject of the picture?

6. What are the ways in which an American photographer and a European photographer differ?

7. How was "Family of Man" an opposite representation of what Whitman was trying to saw about humanity?

8. How are photographs usually held as definitive evidence in the world, according to Sontag?

9. What did Edward Steichen photograph in order to show that objects aren't always as simple as they appear?

10. What does Susan Sontag suggest that photography has made society do in relation to reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Photographs can be made to speak with the help of captions beside them, but are these captions always necessary?

Part 1: Why do you think it's necessary to include captions with photographs?

Part 2: How do you think the photograph is changed by the introduction of captions?

Part 3: Do you think captions are necessary to include with pictures? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sontag makes the statement that in a person being photographed in a sexual way, it's almost as if it's a violation or a rape.

Part 1: Why do you think a photograph might be like a rape?

Part 2: What happens if a person consents to having their picture taken? Is that still a 'rape' of sorts? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you feel violated when someone takes a picture of you? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Photographs can capture beauty in all things, even things which are not supposed to be conventionally beautiful.

Part 1: How do you define the idea of beauty? Why?

Part 2: Why do you think it's important for some to capture images of beauty?

Part 3: How do beautiful images affect those who look at them? Why?

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