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Assignment:

In the 1990s, photography was the expression used by many minority groups that enabled self-visibility. This included body politics, such as "Your Body is a Battleground," the AIDS crisis, and images showing queer relationships. Conflation of what defined a pornographic image ensued, specifically in cases of government funded artworks. How did the United States government respond during this time?

a) Legislation took no action against photographs funded with government money.

b) The United States government celebrated the diversity, causing further rift between parties.

c) Legislation defunded the National Endowment for the Arts for breaching ethical terms while utilizing government money.

d) Legislation restricted the National Endowment for the Arts from funding exhibitions deemed "inappropriate."

2) Phrenology and physiognomy were integral to the development of what practice?

a) the common portrait

b) the family album

c) pornographic images

d) mug shots

3) What type of photography pitted the theoretical crisis of photography against the crisis of the body, resolving concepts surrounding truth as it pertained to popular culture, popular images, and media.

a) paparazzi photos

b) documentary photographs

c) scientific images

d) film

4) Outlining the boundaries of the private and public, in the context of the body, what dictated a tasteful pornographic image has centered around visibility rather than immorality. While the classical nude is seen as tasteful, the "grotesque" can be consider a radical adversary. What other components should be considered in defining an image as politically radical (in the context of body politics)?

a) technical skills, such as exposure and composition

b) all answers are correct

c) personal taste

d) gender and class

5) Whose photographs of a horse marked a significant scientific discovery in the study of human and animal locomotion?

a) Jonathan Crary

b) Etienne-Jules Marey

c) Marta Braun

d) Eadweard Muybridge

6) What practice has been both theorized and utilized in projecting utopian and dystopian ideals in a contemporary culture?

a) digital manipulation

b) the resurgence of film photographic practices

c) the avant-garde use of photomontage

d) X-ray images

7) What type of popular photography was seen as socially acceptable until about the second half of the 19th century?

a) war photography

b) carte de visite

c) pornography

d) post-mortem photography

8) Cinema had produced an expanded gaze, allowing the immobile individual to travel far. How has this changed since the new millennium?

a) the introduction to mobile technologies has locked our expanded gaze to such technology

b) the advances in technology have embraced immobility even further

c) the expanded gaze has only become more restricted through the democratic nature of photography

d) all answers are correct