Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on wilderness photography's legacy
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The grand landscape photographs of the last century did measurable political work: printed in magazines and hung in Congress, they turned distant valleys into places citizens demanded be saved, and parks exist today because those images moved votes.
Text 2
The same frames that saved the valleys taught a lesson their makers did not intend: nature, in them, is empty. The peoples who had lived in and shaped those landscapes for millennia were cropped out, and generations learned to see any human presence — including those residents' return — as a stain on wilderness.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 argues that the images Text 1 credits with protecting wild places also shaped a misleading ideal of what nature is.Correct
- B. Text 2 denies that photographs influenced conservation legislation.
- C. Both texts fault the photographs for being technically unskilled.
- D. Text 1 discusses paintings, while Text 2 discusses only films.
Answer: A. Text 2 argues that the images Text 1 credits with protecting wild places also shaped a misleading ideal of what nature is.
Text 2 concedes the political wins but argues the empty, pristine framing taught the public that nature excludes people — a distortion with consequences. It complicates, rather than denies, Text 1's praise.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 denies that photographs influenced conservation legislation.
- Text 2 opens by granting the images' legislative influence.
- C. Both texts fault the photographs for being technically unskilled.
- Neither text questions the photographs' technical mastery.
- D. Text 1 discusses paintings, while Text 2 discusses only films.
- Both texts are about photographs; neither concerns paintings or films.
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