(1) What is
described as “one of the most familiar concepts of photography”?
Ans: The
decisive moment
(2) Should
you trust photography?
Ans: No
because the images did not explain what the war was about.
(3) What was
revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?
Ans: There
was a revolutionary development in Camera technology and the Leica (Camera)
gave birth to a whole new style of instant photography.
(4) What did
George Bernard Shaw say about all the paintings of Christ?
Ans: He said
that he would exchange every painting of Christ for one snap shot.
(5) Why were
Tony Vaccaro’s negatives destroyed by the army censors?
Ans: They
were destroyed by the censors because they were images of dead GIS and the
censors felt that the world was not ready to see them.
(6) Who was
Henryk Ross? What was his job?
Ans: He was
a Polish Jewish Photographer and he worked as a photo journalist but during the
Holocaust was employed as a photographer by the Department of Statistics for
the Jewish council within the ghetto.
(7) Which
show was a sticking plaster for the wounds of war, how many people saw it and
what cliché photography did it end on.
Ans: The show
was called The Family of Man, More than Nine million people saw it and it ends
with a photograph by W. Eugene Smith featuring his two children walking in his
own garden out into the light.
(8) Why did
Joel Meyerowitz photograph Ground Zero in colour?
Ans: He
didn’t want it to look grey and be like a tragedy, so he photographed it in
colour.
