To show his contempt for “belly-button shots,” Alexander Rodchenko took a 1928 photograph of a woman at the telephone in this manner. For 10 points each:
[10m] Nadar used what style of shot for pioneering views of the Arc de Triomphe? A description is acceptable.
ANSWER: overhead photography [accept top-down photography, high angle photography, aerial photography, bird’s eye view, God’s eye view, 90-degree shot; accept descriptions of photography from the air, the sky, a balloon, or above; prompt on using an extreme angle]
[10h] This Bauhaus teacher exemplified the “New Vision” in top-down photographs taken from the Berlin Radio Tower. This artist included aerial views along with “photograms” in the book Painting, Photography, Film.
ANSWER: László Moholy-Nagy
[10e] Alvin Langdon Coburn emphasized the geometry of this city’s streets in an elevated series titled for its “pinnacles.” In this city, Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed a sailor kissing a nurse on V-J Day.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC]
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