Quiz on the Evolution of Photography

Who is credited with the earliest surviving description of the camera obscura?

• Aristotle

• Roger Bacon

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Mo Ti

Which artist was one of the first to adapt camera-based principles of perspective and proportion to his drawings?

• Caravaggio

• Albrecht Dürer

• Johannes Vermeer

• Leonardo da Vinci

What was the name of the circular exhibition space built by Robert Barker in London?

• Panorama

• Diorama

• Cosmorama

• Uranorama

In what year did Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre open his first diorama theater?

• 1815

• 1822

• 1794

• 1800

Which chemical was found to dye feathers, furs, and leather permanently black in the 1700s?

• Aqua regia

• Calcium carbonate

• Silver nitrate

• Phosphorous

Who developed the first system for making images permanent through the direct action of light?

• Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

• William Henry Fox Talbot

• Sir John Herschel

What term did William Henry Fox Talbot use to describe his early salted paper process?

• Calotype

• Photogenic Drawing

• Ambrotype

• Heliography

Which scientist provided the missing link in making the images permanent for early photographers?

• Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

• William Henry Fox Talbot

• Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

• Sir John Herschel

What did Sir John Herschel invent in 1842 that was a paper process sensitized with various plant juices?

• Daguerreotype

• Anthotype

• Calotype

• Cyanotype

What was the term used by Herschel to describe the broader concept of photography instead of individualistic descriptions?

• Heliography

• Calotype

• Photogenic Drawing

• Photography