Photo History

What does camera obscura mean?

• Dark and obscure
• Camera chamber
• Dark chamber
• Candid camera

The word photography literally means what?

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

This person invented a flexible roll, dry film that made photography something that anyone could do.

• Wedgewood
• Land
• Eastman
• Sasson

William Henry Fox Talbot invented the:

• Polaroid 
• Subtractive System
• Calotype
• Daguerreotype

The daguerrotype was important because this was the first time it was possible for a photographer to be able to capture an image that was previously only seen inside a camera obscura. This was the first time it was possible to preserve a permanent image. This showed people the possibility of a new age in photography. Who invented this process?

• Niepce
• Talbot
• Daguerre

• Eastman

George Eastman named his company after his first camera that he marketed that held enough film for 100 photos. What is that name?

• Kodak
• Polaroid 
• Fugi
• Nikon

Who is credited for taking the very first photo that was permanent?

• Louis Daguerre
• Robert Cornelius
• George Eastman
• Joseph Niepce

This photographer revolutionized photography discovering the negative/positive system of photography, where he learned how to make multiple prints from a single negative exposure. His name was:

• William Henry Fox Talbot

• Daguerre

• Herschel

• Niépce

Which photographic process produced an image that had a softer slightly textured appearance and was created by a method that used asphalt or bitumen applied over a pewter plate and exposed to the sun. It took many hours to create an exposure which made it a lengthy process.

• Cyanotype

• Daguerreotype

• Heliograph

• Calotype

The importance of this invention in early photography was the discovery that silver nitrate was used to make temporary negative prints on paper, producing shades of gray as well as pure black and white. This truly was the beginning of what we know as photography today.

• True

• False