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

2. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

3. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

4. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

5. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Susan Sontag suggest that photography has made society do in relation to reality?

3. Are people with children more or less likely to own a camera, according to Sontag's own findings?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sontag makes a bold supposition that some artists create their works only to be photographed.

Part 1: Do you think an artist would only create something in order to get its picture taken?

Part 2: Why do you think artists create their pieces to begin with?

Part 3: Do you agree with Sontag's idea? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Photographs can capture beauty in all things, even things which are not supposed to be conventionally beautiful.

Part 1: How do you define the idea of beauty? Why?

Part 2: Why do you think it's important for some to capture images of beauty?

Part 3: How do beautiful images affect those who look at them? Why?

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