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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Yale BA Brandeis Supreme1001020
Amherst AClark A100010
Boston University ABowdoin B100010
Bowdoin ABU B100010
Yale ABrown A1001020
CarabrandeisTufts B100010
Williams ADiamond Brandeis100010
Northeastern ABrandeises Brew0000
Harvard ATufts A1001020
MIT AYale C100010