Intro to Photography Quiz 1

In 1802 this early experimenter in the field of photography presented a paper on his discovery of a method of copying objects by exposing paper soaked in silver nitrate to the sun and were termed "Sun Prints".

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Thomas Wedgwood

• Victor Hugo

What is this object called?

• Camera Obscura

• Pinhole Camera

• Magic Image Box

• Drawing Box

This is believed to be the first photograph taken in ca. 1827 titled: View from His Window at Le Gras. Who was this man?

• William Henry Fox Talbot

• Ansel Adams

• Alfred Stieglitz

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Louis-Jaques Mande Daguerre created the first publicly available photographic process called __________?

• Albumen Prints

• Heliographs

• Daguerreotypes

• Shadowgraphs

Who was the American photographer who took this image in 1839...believed to be the first "Selfie" created?

• Jean Baptiste Louis Gros

• Stefano Stampa

• Robert Cornelius

• Antoine Claudet

"Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man" (1840) is a direct paper positive image created by this photographer after Daguerre received a contract with the French government.

• William Henry Fox Talbot

• Hippolyte Bayard

• Pierre Gustave Joly

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce

After experimenting with paper bathed with a weak solution of common salt (sodium chloride), then a solution of silver nitrate, this English scientist, mathematician, botanist, linguist, and classical scholar created images that he called ______________.

• shadowgraphs

• photographs

• albumen prints

• photo-bombs

Who was the photographer that created this Daguerreotype image in 1853 of the "Burning Mills, Oswego, N.Y."?

• Charles Fontayne & William Southgate Porter

• John Edwin Mayall

• George N. Barnard

• Charles Negre

Who is responsible for creating this salted paper print around 1845 titled, "The McCandlish Children"?

• Stefano Stampa

• David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

• Charles Fontayne & William Southgate Porter

• Antoine Claudet

Which of these images would be produced using a polished metal/silver plate to capture reflected light?

• Shadowgraph

• Heliograph

• Sun Print

• Daguerreotype