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Weekly Vocab

Soft Focus: lens "flaw," in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration



Surrealism: cultural movement that began in the early 1920s characterized by unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision



Cropping: Removing the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio.


Anamorphic Format: cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio

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Weekly Vocab

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format; a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability

Zoopraxiscope:  Early device for displaying motion pictures created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879; projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion

Kinetoscope: early motion picture exhibition device designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device

Chronophotography:  antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print. It is a predecessor to cinematography and moving film

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Weekly Vocab

Conceptual photography: a type of photography that illustrates an idea; popularized by the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s



Stock photography: the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses, usually available in online databases


Microstock photography: a type of stock photography that is available on the internet, is gathered from a wide range of independent photographers, and is sold royalty-free



iStock Photography: online, royalty free, international microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model

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Pop Art

Weekly Vocab

Pop Art: 1950s art movement centralized in Britain and the US that challenged traditional notions of fine art. The movement integrated "lower art" pieces such as advertising and pop culture

Dadaism: A European artistic and literary movement by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland that revolted against smugness in traditional art and Western society;

Photomontage: A composite photograph resulting from two or more photographs fused into a seamless illusion of an unreal subject. 


Constructivism: An artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favor of art as a practice for social purposes.