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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. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

2. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

4. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

5. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is photography a democratizing experience, according to Sontag in this particular chapter of the book?

2. What did Whitman think about those things which are often deemed trivial and those things considered to be real?

3. How did Whitman want to see society as a whole, according to Sontag's writings in this chapter?

4. Why does Sontag believe that tourists always use cameras during their trips to new and exciting places?

5. What do photographs do to the scale of an object within the photograph and in real life, according to Sontag?

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

7. Who were some of the groups of people who Diane Arbus took pictures of when she was creating portraits?

8. What did the Farm Service Administration effectively show about the power of photography?

9. Why is surrealism not necessarily a universal art form, according to this particular chapter?

10. How does surrealism look at wealth, which is the same way that photography seems to look at wealth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sontag also points out that some photographers are moralists, trying to identify a world vision.

Part 1: How do you think photographers are moralists? How does this label work?

Part 2: Why is it important to identify a world vision? Or isn't it?

Part 3: Is photography necessary in order to understand morality? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Whitman strove to see what was similar in all beings as opposed to what was unique about people, it seems.

Part 1: Do you think people are unique or are we all the same? Why or why not?

Part 2: How does the perception of the world change when you realize all people are the same?

Part 3: Why do you think it's important to see similarities among people? Or isn't it?

Essay Topic 3

Sontag points out that most people either have a camera or have access to a camera, making them hard to avoid these days.

Part 1: Why do you think people are so interested in having cameras around?

Part 2: Do you have a camera? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think cameras will be more or less important as the years go on? Why?

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