1. Sontag argues that the photograph, unlike the written word, is:
(a) Subject to interpretation.
(b) Politically charged.
(c) Artistically inferior.
(d) Always objective.

2. Which of the following magazines was NOT devoted entirely to photography?
(a) Life.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) Picture Post.
(d) Vu.

3. Sontag presents her own objection to Salgado's "Migrations." Why does Sontag criticize Salgado's work?
(a) He staged many of the photographs to create more dramatic depictions of human agony.
(b) He profited greatly from the exhibition of the photographs while the subjects received nothing.
(c) He generalized different social and political situations under the anonymous umbrella of suffering.
(d) He reprinted images of refugees without their consent, display a disregard for their rights.

4. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?
(a) The mass deaths during the Spanish Civil War.
(b) The casualties of Bunker Hill.
(c) The atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.
(d) The dead and dying of the Korean War.

5. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?
(a) The footage of the actual event was not dramatic enough.
(b) Colonel Roosevelt was unsatisfied with the footage.
(c) The photographer lost the film reel.
(d) The lighting on the day of the event was insufficient.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag suggests that it is still possible to "feel the pulse of Christian iconography" in much war photography. Which famous work of art does she suggest can be seen in W. Eugene Smith's photograph of the woman in Minamata cradling her child?

2. In its early days, photography was thought to:

3. Using the example of Ground Zero, Sontag argues that photographs have the power to do which of the following to their subject?

4. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?

5. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:

(see the answer key)

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