Photography 34
Study Guide Quiz 2
Schlosser
Quiz 2: Includes material from Chapters 3-4 (50 total points)
This is a CLOSED BOOK TEST. NO NOTES OR ANY OTHER RESOURCES may be used on the Exam.
Cheating will not be tolerated.
ABSOLUTELY NO CELL PHONES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVISES MAY BE VISIBLE DURING AN EXAM
KEEP THEM IN YOUR BAGS OR POCKETS, PLEASE
Each quiz may cover all course materials presented in each unit including all discussions, readings,
textbook chapters, review questions, and lectures.
You must provide your own Scantron!
PART A: Artist Identification/Matching: The artist identification/matching portion of the exam requires you to identify
the artist who made the photograph on the screen. Then in a series of questions, you need to match the image with
the letter of the statements that best match the information that you know about the artist.
This information includes details such as:
• Facts about the artist
• The technology and photographic process used in creating the image
• The stylistic qualities of the artist or image
Only images of the following artists will appear in this part of the exam.
Disderi, Nadar, Rejlander, Robinson, Cameron, Fenton, Brady, Gardner, Watkins
PART B: MULTIPLE CHOICE and TRUE/FALSE
All multiple choice questions are standard one of four: select the one best answer from four options.
For true answers choose “A”. For false answers choose “B”.
Study these images for the quiz. Memorize the name of the artist who created each of these photographs. You
don’t need to memorize the date or the title of the image, but you should know the important facts about the
artist and the image that were discussed in lecture and your textbook.
1. Roger Fenton: The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855
Understand significance of Crimean War, Roger Fenton.
2. Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi, Princess Buonaparte Gabrielli, c. 1862 uncut carte-de-visite cards
Understand significance of carte-de-visite cards.
3. Matthew Brady (1823-1896): Abraham Lincoln, 1860, (Cooper Union portrait)
Understand significance of US Civil War to photography.
4. Alexander Gardener (1821-1882): Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863
5. Carleton Watkins (1829-1916): Yosemite Valley from the “Best General View,” 1865
Understand significance of stereograph cards.
6. Oscar Rejlander (1813-1875): The Two Ways of Life, 1857, combination print
Understand significance of “high art” debate and photography.
7. Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901): Fading Away, 1858, combination print
8. Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon) (1820-1910): Sarah Bernhardt, 1859
9. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Herschel, 1867, p. 158
10. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Julia Jackson, 1867 (profile view)
Vocabulary words:
photographic essay, e.g. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
combination printing, e.g. Rejlander, Robinson.
stereograph card
carte-de-visite
ambrotype
tintype (ferrotype)
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper and Harper’s Weekly: These weekly newspapers specialized in visual
accounts of current events and provided a market for photographic images.