PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 13
When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype,(425 more words not shown)
Based on the information in(10 more words not shown)
- Aphotography in the(14 more words not shown)
- Bartists can relinquish(19 more words not shown)
- Cphotographs produced in(17 more words not shown)
- Dit is ethically(22 more words not shown)
- Ethe aesthetic significance(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Estabrook deliberately welcomes a process whose exact results he cannot fully control. Accidents, stains, and other irregularities help create the impression of age he wants. His plan therefore has a clear distinction: he can choose the artistic goal without controlling every feature of the photograph that achieves it.
What we’re looking for
Look for an inference from that relationship, rather than a new opinion about the subjects of old photographs or the ethics of imitating them.
Working the answers
- A
We are not told that he regards nineteenth-century subjects as especially striking. His stated interest concerns the photographs' appearance and the associations viewers bring to them.
- BCorrect
Choosing an unpredictable process means giving up control over some details. Because those very irregularities help create nostalgia, relinquishing that control can be compatible with achieving the artist's desired effect.
- C
Earlier photographers would probably have removed the imperfections Estabrook retains. His use of them does not show that photographers of the earlier period generally intended to exploit processing uncertainty artistically.
- D
He imagines his work being mistaken for old photographs, but no ethical judgment about that possibility is reported. We should not turn the reader's possible concern into his stated belief.
- E
The account does not locate the primary source of aesthetic significance in factors the artist can manipulate afterward. His embrace of chance during creation is important precisely because not every significant result is under his control.
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