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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WashU DIndiana B100010
Purdue AMiami100010
WashU BNorthwestern A1001020
UChicago CNotre Dame1001020
Indiana APurdue C0101020
Purdue DUChicago B0000
UIUC ASIUE A1010020
UIUC CUChicago D100010
UChicago AWashU C1001020