Homework Clinic
Hands-on Clinic => Art => Topic started by: dejastew on Feb 2, 2021
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Question 1
Compare and contrast Ansel Adams' Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California and Chris Steele-Perkins' Marshall Islands. How do the photographs inspire environmental conservation?
Question 2
Describe how Alfred Stieglitz's Spring Showers, New York demonstrates the influence of painting on early photography. In addition to producing photographs, discuss two of Stieglitz's contributions to photography and explain their purpose.
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Answer 1
The ideal answer should include:
1. Ansel Adams used carefully controlled lighting and a large depth of field to capture the beauty of the natural forms in Yosemite National Park.
2. Adams' depicts the landscape as a symbol of the transcendent and spiritual qualities of nature in order to encourage the public to support the conservation of the natural environment.
3. Chris Steele-Perkins's Marshall Islands, however, focuses on the human impact on the environment, especially our role in climate change.
4. Steele-Perkins' photograph depicts a sea wall made of man-made junk, which is an attempt to hold back the rising tides that threaten the Marshall Islands.
Answer 2
The ideal answer should include:
1. Stieglitz's photograph recreates the subtle gradations of tone and texture in contemporary paintings by juxtaposing the wet street with the misty sky.
2. Stieglitz used a shallow depth of field to contribute to the hazy and out of focus quality of the sky and buildings in the background.
3. Stieglitz established a photography gallery in New York City in 1905 and founded the magazine Camera Work, which published photography and essays about modern art and culture.
4. Both the magazine and photography gallery validated photography as an artistic medium because they showed that photographers could be as skilled as painters in depicting and interpreting the world around them.
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