Photographic Portraits - Unit 11 Review

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition, Macmillan Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

The most famous portraits are now created by photographers rather (0) ___ painters, and the people (1) ___ the lens are as celebrated as the sitters in front. But are the images they produce of celebrities worthy of serious art exhibitions? Will they (2) ___ looked back on as a true record of the age? Critics say fashion photographers lack artistic depth and integrity, (3) ___ of which are necessary to be a true artist. Their defenders say their approach is little different from (4) ___ of respected portrait artists throughout the ages, from the German Hans Holbein to English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. Just (5) ___ court artists in the past, photographers in modern times work to a tight timetable and rarely have time to get to know their sitter. For a painter like Reynolds, this was (6) ___ much the case. It is known that he (7) ___ hold up to eight sittings in a day to finish a work on time. Not (8) ___ the 19th century did the idea emerge that art should not be commercially based.

Photographic Portraits

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