History of Photography

The first camera wasn't really a camera at all. It was a room-sized box with a small hole on one side. This was known as a:

• Box Camera

• Heliograph

• Camera Obscura

• Daguerreotype

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Which chemist made the first surviving photographic image?

• Eadweard Muybridge

• Joseph Niepce

• Louis Daguerre

• Sir Charles Wheatstone

Which inventor created the "daguerreotype" on a copper plate?

• Louis Daguerre

• Ansel Adams

• Robert Capa

• John Herschel

Which photographer devoted his career to capturing motion through photography by inventing the zoopraxiscope?

• Louis Daguerre

• Eadweard Muybridge

• Alhazen

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Who was the reporter that invented an indoor flash to photograph the overcrowded slums of New York which led to reformed housing codes?

• Jacob Riis

• Ansel Adams

• Andrew Gardner

• Joseph Niepce

This artist promoted photography as a fine art and created the photography magazine "Camera Work"

• Ansel Adams

• Alfred Steiglitz

• Arnold Newman

• Lewis Hine

Which photographer took photographs of immigrants and children working in mines and factories to help pass child labor laws?

• Lewis Hine

• Brassai

• Julia Margaret Cameron

• Edward Weston

Which photographer is known for being the model, as well as the photographer, where she is dressed up as various characters and are known as "Untitled Film Stills?"

• Margaret Bourke-White

• Dorothea Lange

• Cindy Sherman

• Sandy Skoglund

How does a camera obscura work?

• Items are placed on top of glass painted with silver salts and put into the sun, taking a temporary "sun picture."

• A small light-tight box is filled with film, allowing photographers to take up to 100 pictures at a time.

• A shutter opens in the camera, allowing light to hit a sensor and capture an image permanently.

• All light is blocked out in a room, except for a small pinhole. Through the pinhole, the image of the outside is projected onto the opposite wall.

Who was NOT one of the people given credit for the creation of the camera obscura?

• Aristotle

• Mozi

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce

• Ibn al-Haytham (aka Alhazen)