History of Photography

The earliest recorded theoretical understanding of the pinhole camera

• 4th century B.C. 
• 11th century A.D. 
• 5th century B.C.
• 8th century A.D.

In the 11th century, this Arabic Muslim Scientist built the first model pinhole camera, also known as "camera obscura". 

• Mozi
• Alhazen
• Mohamad
• Dameer

In the 15th century, this artist used the pinhole camera to study perspective and wrote the first detailed description of its form and function. Hint: he shares a name with the blue ninja turtle 

• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino.
• Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

This famous astronomer coined the term "camera obscura" in 1604 (from  Latin - "dark room")

• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Galileo Galilei
• Tycho Brahe
• Johannes Kepler

The word photography literally means what?

• light sculpture
• sun writing
• bright messages
• light writing

This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the opposite wall.

• Kodak Brownie
• Camera Obscura
• Polaroid
• Daguerreotype

This person made the first permanent photographic image.

• Morse
• Daguerre 
• Niepce
• Talbot

Why was Louis Daguerre important to Joseph Nicephore Niepce's work?

• He took the world's first selfie.
• He figured out how to make the photographic process quicker
• He created Heliography
• He developed the first ever color film.

In what year was the first photographic image made?

• 1816
• 1826
• 1941
• 1778

How long did the first photograph take to expose? 

• 5 hours
• 4 hours
• 10 hours
• 8 hours