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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. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

2. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

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

4. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

5. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does photography encourage voyeurism in those who look at photographs?

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

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

4. What are the two groups into which photographers can be categorized, according to the text in this chapter?

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

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

7. On what other artistic areas does photography impose standards according to Sontag in this chapter?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sontag points out that some photographers are like scientists, documenting and examining the world.

Part 1: Why do you think photographers could be called scientists?

Part 2: Do you think photography is necessary in science? Why or why not?

Part 3: Why do you think it's important to document the world? Or isn't it?

Essay Topic 2

False photography becomes another important concern in the art of photography, with false caption being included on some photographs.

Part 1: Why do you think some photographers use false captions with their photographs?

Part 2: Do you think it's 'right' to use captions which falsely describe a photograph? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think the photograph changes when a false caption is used?

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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