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Questions 1 and 3 are based on this passage
This photographer's recent portraits make no effort to show the subject within a social setting or among the objects that express his or her way of life. The signature white background against which little more than the subject's head is shown is meant, one supposes, to suggest the metaphor of a soul stripped bare. By eliminating superficial means of signalling psychology and status, the photographer, some critics assert, heroically challenges himself to find expressive means to reveal his subject’s truth.
Arguably, however, the photographer's fierce scrutiny-a kind of visual interrogation-in the portraits tells us little about the essence of their subjects. In these images the subjects often seem stripped of dignity and worth so that the portraits appear to be merely transcriptions of an aggressiveness. a cutting down to size. on the photographer's part. It would be greatly to his artistic benefit if he were to leave the studio behind and return to the real world where some of his best portraits were made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
With which of the following statements about the “white background” in the series of portraits described in the passage would the author probably agree?
The white background is intended by the photographer to make the portrait reveal the subject without relying on conventional clues to the subject's social status.
The white background allows the portraits to reveal things about the subjects that would otherwise be masked
The use of a white background does not represent an artistic advance from the portraiture the photographer did earlier in his career
Select one or more answer choices.
