landscape photography - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

The exhibition New Topographics broke ground by emphasizing the “man-altered” character of this genre in the 20th century. For 10 points each:

[10e] The Sierra Club commissioned photographs in what genre by Ansel Adams?

ANSWER: landscape photography [accept nature photography]

[10h] Robert Adams compiled stark photos of tract developments and highway billboards in a 1974 photobook titled for this place. The Carter commissioned a 1985 book of portrait photographs titled for this place by Richard Avedon.

ANSWER: American West [accept The New West or In the American West]

[10m] Western “straight” photographers like Ansel Adams rejected pictorialism’s soft focus landscapes by instead using high values of this parameter. Depth of field scales with this ratio of focal length over aperture diameter.

ANSWER: f-number [or f-stop or f-ratio; accept inverse relative aperture; accept f/64 (“f-stop-64”)]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	11.25	88%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	78%	44%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	11.25	88%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	4.00	20%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	6.00	40%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	12.00	90%	30%	0%

Data


Alabama A	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Emory B	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Emory A	10	0	0	10
Tusculum A	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Tennesse A	Georgia Tech E	0	0	0	0
CWRU B (UG)	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Bristol B	0	0	0	0
Bristol A	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Durham A	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge A	0	0	0	0
Stanford M	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
WashU D	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Miami	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
UChicago C	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Purdue D	UChicago B	0	0	0	0
UIUC A	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UIUC C	UChicago D	10	0	0	10
UChicago A	WashU C	10	0	10	20
UW B	SFU	10	0	10	20
UBC B	UW A	10	0	10	20
Florida Tech A	Florida Tech B	0	0	0	0
UF E	UCF B	0	0	0	0
UF C	UF B	0	0	0	0
UF A	UF D	10	0	10	20
UF F	UCF A	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Stanford L	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Penn State B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Penn State A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Rowan A	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	0	0	0	0
Haverford A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Bard	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
CWRU D (DII)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	0	0	10
CWRU C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Vassar B	Colorado College	10	0	0	10
Texas B	McGill E	10	0	0	10
Missouri	NYU B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Ole Miss	Texas D	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Oregon State	Texas C	10	0	0	10
Iowa	WUSTL A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Vanderbilt	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Warwick A	0	0	0	0
LSE B	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Yale B	A Brandeis Supreme	10	0	10	20
Amherst A	Clark A	10	0	0	10
Boston University A	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	BU B	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Brown A	10	0	10	20
Carabrandeis	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Williams A	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Northeastern A	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Yale C	10	0	0	10