M7-Practice Test

Module 7 - The Camera Arts

PRACTICE TEST

Directions: Use the content from the course, web searches, and your journal writings to test you knowledge on the following questions. Write as much information as you can. Check your answers with the next page of information.

1. Explain the difference between Joseph Niepce’s and Louis Daguerre’s photo development results. Why did one method become the standard for photography and the other didn’t?
2. What was the relationship that developed between early photography and painting?
3. Describe how an aperture works.
4. How did photojournalism change the way news was reported? Do you think it’s still important in the digital age? Why?
5. The Canadian philosopher and critic Marshal McCluhan coined the term “the medium is the message”. He asserts that new mediums become avenues that help define changes in scale from one medium to another: in other words, how one medium expands or contracts our ability to communicate and express ourselves. How do digital media change the scale in relation to traditional photography? Give two examples to support your answer.
6. How does film (the movies) change the scale of photography? What are the unique qualities in film that allow it to do this?