Question
Answer the following about photography during the New Deal. For 10 points each:
[10e] In 1936, Margaret Bourke-White took a photo of the Fort Peck Dam that served as the first cover for this magazine whose logo is a red box with white text inside. It was later bought by Time.
ANSWER: Life
[10h] Many Farm Security Administration-era photographs in this book document the lives of the pseudonymous Gudger, Woods, and Ricketts families. The lines “The house had now descended / All over Alabama the lamps are out” precedes this book’s first section, titled “On the Porch.”
ANSWER: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (by Walker Evans and James Agee)
[10m] This critic called the work of the FSA “propagandistic” in an essay included in her collection On Photography. A retrospective by Diane Arbus is heavily criticized by this author in another essay originally titled “Freak Show,” often grouped with her “Notes on ‘Camp’.”
ANSWER: Susan Sontag
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
Data
| Rutgers A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford | Rowan A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |