Quiz #32 Wrapup / Appeal

Results have been tabulated from last week's Album Cover Quiz. The winner was Dan Szpara whose reply scored a near-perfect 65 out of 66 points possible. He will soon receive a collection of fabulous* gifts and prizes arriving in the mail. Congrats to Dan, and thanks to everyone who submitted answers.

After this latest round, I suspect that photographs are too easily researched, rendering these quizzes sort of meaningless as pure knowledge exercises. So this may be the last one. But I think the quizzes are still interesting as a resource connecting music and photography. In the four album cover quizzes so far I've dug up about 60 album covers with appropriated photos. 

I'm sure there are many more out there which I don't know about, but there is no good online resource cataloging them. Tracking examples down is a pain in the ass. So I'm appealing to the hive mind. If you know of other examples of album covers which use noncommissioned (preferably well known) photographs, please send me a note. Not for future quizzes, but because I want to create a large database of all of them, similar to what Karl Baden has done for book covers. Thanks.

Anyway, here's last week's quiz with answer key:

1. 

Neal Boenzi, Manhattan, 1966

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City

2. 

Clay Lipsky, Atomic Overlook Series, 2012

Clockwork, Surge

3.

John Pfahl, Triangle, Bermuda, 1975

Hiroshima, Another Place

4.

Matt Weber, Kids On Fence, 1988 

Casey Neill And The Norway Rats, All You Pretty Vandals

5.

Eugene Salignac, Painters On The Brooklyn Bridge, 1914

Elliott Carter, Figments and Fragments

Steve Reich, New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs

6.

Jason Evans, Untitled, 2014

Caribou, Our Love

7. 

Vivian Maier, Marina City, Chicago, 1965

Wilco, Alpha Mike Foxtrot

8.

Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, 1936

Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads

Swingin' Utters, Fistful of Hollow

9.

Sergie Chilikov, Alatyr, 1995

Beirut, Gulag Orkestar

10.

Alec Soth, from Dog Days Bogota, 2003

Yasushi Ide, Late Night Blues

11.

Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 444 from Locomotion Series, 1887

Sons Of An Illustrious Father, EP

12.

Missy Prince, Untitled, 2011

Xolo, Future Home

13.

Corey Arnold, The North Sea, 2011

Volcano Choir, Repave

14. 

Pete Turner, Road Song, 1967

Wes Montgomery, Road Song

*Interpretations of "fabulous" subject to variation

Quiz #32: Album Covers

It's time for another round of The Album Cover Quiz.

Below are 14 noncommissioned photographs used as cover art on music albums. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer, 1 point for identifying the photograph's title/year, and 2 points for identifying the album. One photograph below is used on two separate album covers. Each identification scores 2 points. If you've never won a B quiz, give yourself 8 bonus points (Sorry, Alexandros).

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There a total of 66 sinister points possible. The first person to email me the response with the highest point total before Sunday, June 7th, at 9 AM PDT wins a fiber print, a CD mix featuring music from the above albums, and everlasting glory. Good luck!

Key

Thanks to everyone who submitted replies to Quiz #31 a few weeks ago. Sorting out the answers was more involved than I'd expected, because I received many varied responses, and some of the questions turned out to have multiple correct answers. Also, one of my reference sources (this book, which is good for many things but apparently not dates) led me to a few inaccuracies in the quiz. Sorry, my bad. Taking those factors into account, I was generally lenient in grading the answers, and gave respondents the benefit of the doubt where ambiguities were involved. 

The winner, with 43 out of 45 correct, is Alexandros Konstantinakis-Karmis of Greece. Alexandros is a quiz-answering machine, having also won the last two album cover quizzes on B. Congrats, Alexandros, and stand by to receive your lovely prize package. 

I appreciate all the responses. Hope it was fun. Below is the answer key with my intended answer first (followed by acceptable alternatives in parenthesis).

1. Tina Modotti, Lotte Jacobi

2. Minor White, Imogene Cunningham

3. Jamie Livingston (Boris Ignatovich, Chris Marker)

4. William Claxton (P.H. Emerson)

5. Fritz Henle (J.D. Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere)

6. Jeanloup Sieff (Peter Lindbergh, Tazio Secchiaroli, Charles Beijer, David Eustace, David Doubilet)

7. Pierre Boucher (Gilles Bensimon, Hal Gould, Don Ornitz)

8. Abbas Attar

9. Gyula Halasz

10. David Szymin

11.  Mike Meyer

12. Edward James Muggeridge

13. Yasuhiro Wakabayashi

14. Israelis Bidermanas

15. Keresz Andor

16.  Emmanuel Radnitzky

17. Gaspard-Felix Tournachon

18. Arthur Felig

19. Rober Capa and Alberto Korda

20. Nobuyoshi Araki and Tim Page

21. Alfred Steiglitz (Massimo Vitali

22. Graham Nash (Max Vadakul, Arnold Hardy)

23. Arnold Newman (Glen Friedman, Johan Persson)

24. William H. Jackson (Johan van der Keuken, Jack Cato, Max Dupain)

25. Alex Webb (Roger Mayne, Robert Vano, 

26. Clarence H. White (Scott Kelby, Bruce Hudson, Francis Browne, Bruce Conner, Robert Demachy)

27. Brassai

28. Daido Moriyama (Julius Schulman, Thomas Rusch)

29. Carleton Watkins  (Sam Haskins

30. Ihei Kimura (Tom Kelley)

31. Paul Strand

32. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

33. Berenice Abbott

34. Ilse Bing

35. Weegee

36. Walker Evans

37. Philippe Halsman

38. Yousuf Karsh

39. David Seymour 

40. Werner Bischof

41. Eugene Smith

42. Helmut Newton

43. Ernst Hass

44. Tony-Ray Jones

45. Lars Turnbjork

Quiz #31: Birth And Death

Below are 45 questions related to birth and death. Some photographers in the quiz are more famous than others but all names will be generally recognizable to photo nerds. 

Score one point for each correct identification. 45 points possible. The first person to email me the answer with the highest point total before 9 AM Pacific, Monday, April 20th, 2015, wins a mint copy of Trent Parke's Minutes to Midnight plus handmade bonus gift. Good luck!

1. What two photographers were born August 17, 1896?

2. What two photographers died a day apart, June 23 and June 24, 1976?

3. What photographer died on his birthday?

4. What photographer died the day before his birthday?

5. What photographer died during a Super Bowl?

6. What photographer was born on Thanksgiving?

7. What photographer had a birthday once every four years?

What are the birth names of:

8. Abbas

9. Brassai

10. Chim
11. Disfarmer
12. Helios
13. Hiro
14. Izis

15. Kertesz
16. Man Ray
17. Nadar

18. Weegee

19. What two war photographers died on May 25th, each more than 4000 miles from their birthplace. 

20. Name two photographers born on that date.

Palindromic birthdays (multiple answers possible). Name a photographer born on:

21. 1/1 (January 1st)
22 2/2
23. 3/3
24. 4/4
25. 5/5
26. 7/7
27. 9/9
28. 10/10
29. 11/11
30. 12/12

Identify the photographer:

31. October 16th, 1890, New York — March 31st, 1976, Orgeval, France

32. July 20th, 1895, Bacsborsod, Hungary — November 24th 1946, Chicago

33. June 17th, 1898, Springfield, OH — December 9th, 1991, Monson, ME

34. March 23rd, 1899, Frankfurt, Germany — March 10th, 1998, New York

35. December 6th, 1899, Zolochiv, Ukraine — December 26th, 1968, New York

36. November 3rd, 1902 St. Louis — April 10th, 1975, New Haven, CT

37. May 2nd, 1906, Rigo, Latvia — June 25th 1979, New York

38. December 23rd, 1908 Mardin, Turkey — June 13th, 2002, Boston

39. November 20th, 1911, Warsaw, Poland — December 10th, 1956, Suez, Egypt

40. June 24th, 1916, Zurich — May 16th 1954, Peruvian Andes

41. December 30th, 1918, Wichita, KS — October 15th, 1978, Tucson, AZ

42. October 31st, 1920, Berlin — January 23rd, 2004, Los Angeles

43. March 2nd, 1921, Vienna — September 15th, 1986, New York

44. June 7, 1941, Wells, Somerset — March 13, 1972, London

45. February 15th, 1956, Boras, Sweden — April 11th, 2015, Stockholm

Quiz #30: Anagrams

Below are the names of 16 prominent photographers which have been sliced and diced into anagrams. Your challenge is to decode them. 

Because longer names are generally harder they count for more. Score one point per letter decoded. For example, solving #1 scores 5 points; solving #6 scores 10. There are 200 points possible. 

The responder with the highest point total to first email me before midnight, PST, November 11th, 2013 receives a signed print plus secret bonus prize. Good luck!

1. Ad Ran (5)

2. Laymen (6)

3. Air Bass (7)

4. A Tart Hub (8)

5. Blown Lies (9)

6. Our Ass Zest (10)

7. Oak Fur Hussy (11)

8. In Its Tearoom (12)

9. Guy Ask Errands (13)

10. Ad Lender Relief (14)

11. Creme Rimed Forks (15) 

12. Tiebreakers Urged (16)

13. Cranberries Cobweb (17)

14. Amaze Over Naval Blur (18)

15. Rare Bitch Orneriness (19)

16. Micromanage A Rural Jet (20) 

Quiz #29: More Albums

It's time for another round of The Album Cover Quiz.

Below are 14 noncommisioned photographs used as cover art on music albums. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer, 1 point for identifying the photograph's title/year, and 2 points for identifying the album.

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15. Bonus Question: We know what William Eggleston is photography's king of album covers, but what about the other side of the equation? For 6 points, name the musician who has recorded the most albums using noncommissioned photos as cover art.

There a total of 62 points possible. The first person to email me the response with the highest point total before Sunday, January 20th, at 9 AM PDT wins a 16 x 20 fiber print, a CD mix featuring music from the above albums, and everlasting glory. Good luck!