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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. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

2. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

3. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

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

5. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Whitman's cultural and social influence, coined Whitmanesque, according to the text?

2. What kind of art does Sontag believe photography has become, according to the text in this chapter?

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

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

5. How does photography make the photographer incapable of intervening in a situation?

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

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

8. What was the goal of the Farm Service Administration photographic project in 1935 as described in this chapter?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Whitman strove to look beyond beauty and ugliness into the essential value of a person or object, something that photography can do as well.

Part 1: How do you define beauty in this world? Why?

Part 2: How do you define ugliness in this world? Why?

Part 3: Do you think it's possible to look beyond ugliness and beauty? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The Farm Security Administration once did a photography project which sought to capture the 'common' man

Part 1: How do you define the idea of a common man? Is this definable?

Part 2: Why is it important to document that image of a common man? Or isn't it?

Part 3: How can images of what is common change the way the world works?

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