Questions 21-24
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
Write your answers in boxes 21-24
on your answer sheet.
21. What surprised Sophie most when she began researching news photography?
22. According to Marcus, how were the very first portrait photographers in the 1840s and 1850s regarded?
23. What aspect of today's news photography do both students find most worrying?
24. What do the students agree is the most significant change smartphones have brought to photojournalism?
(A) is correct. Sophie says a workable means of reproducing photographs in print existed before editors were willing to use photographs instead of engravings.
(B) is incorrect. Marcus only says he had assumed equipment was the bottleneck, but Sophie rejects that.
(C) is incorrect. Retouching is not mentioned as the surprising delay.
Associated Text:
For years, the means of reproducing photographs in print was there, at least in a workable form, and editors still preferred engravings based on photographs.
(A) is incorrect. He says the reporter idea came much later.
(B) is correct. Marcus says early portrait photography sat closer to painting than reporting, with photographers charging like portrait painters and showing work in galleries.
(C) is incorrect. Their work was treated seriously in art settings.
Associated Text:
the work sat much closer to painting than reporting. They charged like portrait painters, showed their work in galleries, and were discussed in the art pages.
(A) is incorrect. She says photo-editing software is too obvious and not the main issue.
(B) is incorrect. Algorithms are not discussed as the students' main concern.
(C) is correct. Sophie says the main worry is that many people now enter the field with far less formal preparation than photographers used to have.
Associated Text:
I keep coming back to the fact that a lot of people now enter the field with far less formal preparation than photographers used to have.
(A) is incorrect. Marcus says professional photojournalists have not been made redundant.
(B) is correct. The students agree that smartphones have made editors work harder to check whether an image really shows what the sender claims.
(C) is incorrect. Image quality is not identified as the significant change.
Associated Text:
Editors then have to work out whether the scene, date and source are what the sender claims. That checking process has become much more demanding.
Questions 25-30
What type of change does each development mainly represent?
- a major technical change
- a shift in audience expectations
- new legal restrictions
Write the correct letter
A-C next to questions 25-30.
The correct answer is A because the daguerreotype is described as the first reliable practical photographic process, changing the basic means of making images.
Associated Text:
The daguerreotype in 1839 feels like the starting point. I mean, before that, there just was not a practical photographic process that people could use reliably.
The correct answer is A because the wet-plate process made the photographic method more workable by shortening exposure times and producing reusable negatives.
Associated Text:
The wet plate process in the 1850s is similar in that sense, I suppose, though it comes a bit later. Exposure times became much shorter, and photographers could make negatives that were useful again,
The correct answer is B because war photography is linked to readers wanting visual evidence of events rather than only written descriptions.
Associated Text:
people were beginning to want more than written descriptions. They wanted visual evidence of events they had previously only imagined.
The correct answer is C because rotogravure made national reproduction easier, forcing newspapers to settle ownership and reuse conditions for press images.
Associated Text:
If the same photograph could appear across the country, newspapers had to settle who controlled it, who could reuse it, and under what conditions.
The correct answer is A because colour photography depends on developments in film and printing processes that allowed newspapers to move beyond black and white.
Associated Text:
Colour photography after the war is more straightforward. Film and printing processes developed to the point where newspapers could gradually move beyond black and white.
The correct answer is B because digital cameras changed the speed and quantity of pictures readers expected, making stories feel incomplete without an almost immediate image.
Associated Text:
the bigger change was the speed and quantity of pictures readers came to expect. Suddenly a story from almost anywhere felt incomplete without an image arriving almost immediately.
