Question
Description acceptable. Charles Baudelaire disdained the “hardness” of photographs, writing that he wanted a precise portrait with this quality of a drawing. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this quality which characterizes Robert Capa’s Magnificent Eleven images of D-Day, allegedly due to his shaky hands.
ANSWER: blurriness [accept any answers indicating a lack of sharp edges, fuzziness, etc; accept soft focus; or out of focus; accept bokeh]
[10m] Francesca Woodman achieved blurry effects in her eerie self-portraits using movement and a technique that modifies this parameter using slow shutter speeds.
ANSWER: long exposure [accept exposure time; prompt on time]
[10h] This photographer intentionally used soft focus to create characteristic blurring in images such as Vivien and Merlin, part of her illustrations for Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
ANSWER: Julia Margaret Cameron
<AY, Other Arts>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 71% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 0% | 67% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Missouri | Truman | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Squidward Community College | WashU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |