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

2. Who is NOT one of the authors presented in the section about photography in the literary world?

3. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.

4. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.

5. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the film Chung Kuo include that helped to present an accurate, though not flattering, picture of Chinese life?

2. What is one of the methods of falsifying photographs without changing the photograph itself?

3. What does this chapter seem to believe the current definition of modern society is in relation to images and things?

4. What do most claim about the intentions of photography, according to the long essays in this chapter?

5. What does photography have the power to do to truly beautiful things, according to this chapter?

6. How are photographs presented as art in the modern society, according to this chapter of the book?

7. What discussion does false photography illuminate in regards to the essential division in photography?

8. What do photographs do to reality, according to this final chapter of the book as written by Sontag?

9. What do the Chinese tastes prefer to see in their films, which made the Italian director a poor choice for the documentary on Chinese life?

10. What do some people think a photographer needs to 'become' in order to be proficient in his or her work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Photography offers the viewer a chance to look upon others, without being judged for looking.

Part 1: Do you think it's a good thing for people to look upon others through pictures? Why or why not?

Part 2: How do you think the ability to be a voyeur affects the person who is looking at the picture?

Part 3: Why do you think people feel safer looking at pictures than looking at the subject in real life?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In its beginnings, photography was thought to be unnatural and disgraceful, though it eventually grew accepted and then revered.

Part 1: Why do you think photography was once thought to be unnatural?

Part 2: Why do you think the attitude toward photography changed over the years?

Part 3: In what ways is photography unnatural today? Why?

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