Is Photography Art? IELTS Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘Is Photography Art?’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 27-40. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
Is Photography Art?
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
| 27 | C | Search for ways, fit, mechanical medium, traditional schemes, artistic expression | Paragraph A;
Last 3 lines |
| 28 | D | Both countries, public interest, national stature, achievement in arts | Paragraph B;
Last two lines |
| 29 | D | To save their careers, incorporated with painting, renounced their careers | Paragraph D;
Lines 2 – 4 |
| 30 | A | cultural elite, In England and France, cheapening of art, middle class, purchase of cameras | Paragraph I;
Lines 1 – 3 |
| 31 | E | three main positions, potential of camera art, photographs should not be considered art,photographs would be useful to art, positive influence on the arts | Paragraph C;
Lines 1-3, 8, 12 |
| 32 | G | photographs should not be considered ‘art’,made with a mechanical device,produced by machinery in a mill,should not be considered equal | Paragraph C;
Lines 3 -9 |
| 33 | A | lazy and untalented painters, photographers | Paragraph F;
Line 3 |
| 34 | C | camera images,significant, handmade works of art, positive influence, art, culture | Paragraph C;
Last three lines |
| 35 | B | greater naturalness, graphic depiction, anatomy, clothing, likeness, expression and landscape | Paragraph E;
Lines 4 – 5 |
| 36 | E | narrow in range, emphatic in assertion, telling one truth for ten falsehoods | Paragraph H;
Last two lines |
| 37 | A | to use photography, make a record, own output, | Paragraph D;
Last 4 lines |
| 38 | D | photographs were used as they should be, an artist ,‘raise himself to heights | Paragraph G; Last 3 lines |
| 39 | A | source material,poses, backgrounds | Paragraph D; Line 7 |
| 40 | C | the great industrial madness of the time | Paragraph F;
Lines 6 – 7 |
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