Paul Strand - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This photographer’s images of porch shadows in Connecticut, bowls, and a white fence demonstrate a shift from Pictorialism to “abstraction” and “straight photography.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this photographer who shot half of the documentary Manhatta. The same borough is the setting of this photographer’s best-known image, which depicts four huge windows above people walking in shadow.

ANSWER: Paul Strand (His best-known photograph is Wall Street.)

[10m] Strand’s interest in photography began when Lewis Hine took him to visit this gallery. Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz co-founded this gallery, which is known by the three-digit number of its address on Fifth Avenue.

ANSWER: 291 [or Gallery 291; accept Photo-Secession Gallery or Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession]

[10e] Strand photographed an old widow surrounded by her five sons in this country. This country’s genre of neorealism influenced that photo, which Strand took on a trip with the screenwriter of its film Bicycle Thieves.

ANSWER: Italy [or Italia; or Italian Republic; or Repubblica Italiana]

<AP, Other Fine Arts>

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	83%	33%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	100%	20%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Winona State	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Oxford A	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	Valencia A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF B	0	0	10	10
Florida A	UCF C	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Missoui S&T	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	LSE	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Penn A	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
UCLA	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCSD	UC Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
UNC C	Duke	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
UNC B	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
BU	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Harvard B	10	10	10	30
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
UBC	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UW A	UW B	0	0	10	10
TAMU	ASU	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	RIT A	0	0	0	0
RIT B	ESF A	0	0	0	0