Packet 3: Tossup 2

At age 14, Stephen Shore cold-called this photographer and sold three photos to begin his career. This avid horticulturist took the photo Heavy Roses and exhibited many new breeds of delphinium. This photographer (-5[1])likened (-5[1])an actress to a leopardess behind shrubbery in a photo of her (-5[1])face with a piece of black lace suspended in front of it. (15[1])This photographer (-5[1])won an Oscar for directing the World War II documentary The (*) Fighting Lady. (10[1])Inspired by both Whistler’s (10[1])Nocturnes and an earlier photo of the same subject, this photographer used gum bichromate in his image of the Flatiron (10[1])Building. (10[6]-5[1])This native (10[3])Luxembourger (10[2])shot (10[2])The Pond—Moonlight (10[2]-5[1])and chose (10[1])503 (10[1])photos (10[1])from 68 (10[1])countries (10[1])for a 1955 event (10[1])at the MoMA. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, Alfred Stieglitz co-founded (-5[1])the Photo-Secessionist gallery (-5[1])291 with what curator of (-5[1])the exhibition The Family of Man? ■END■ (10[6]0[11])

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