Bonus
This photographer’s images of porch shadows in Connecticut, bowls, and a white fence demonstrate a shift from Pictorialism to “abstraction” and “straight photography.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this photographer who shot half of the documentary Manhatta. The same borough is the setting of this photographer’s best-known image, which depicts four huge windows above people walking in shadow.
ANSWER: Paul Strand (His best-known photograph is Wall Street.)
[10m] Strand’s interest in photography began when Lewis Hine took him to visit this gallery. Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz co-founded this gallery, which is known by the three-digit number of its address on Fifth Avenue.
ANSWER: 291 [or Gallery 291; accept Photo-Secession Gallery or Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession]
[10e] Strand photographed an old widow surrounded by her five sons in this country. This country’s genre of neorealism influenced that photo, which Strand took on a trip with the screenwriter of its film Bicycle Thieves.
ANSWER: Italy [or Italia; or Italian Republic; or Repubblica Italiana]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 | 12.55 | 86% | 26% | 15% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 8.33 | 67% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 33% | 50% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 13.00 | 100% | 20% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 25% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |