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History of Photo-Semester A Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does camera obscura mean?
a)
Dark and obscure
b)
Camera chamber
c)
Dark chamber
d)
Candid camera
2.
Muybridge and Stanford’s “horse” bet brought about the development of what type of technology?
a)
halftone
b)
film negatives
c)
motion capturing camera
d)
the fax machine
3.
What year was the first permanent image created?
a)
1932
b)
1935
c)
1877
d)
1826
4.
What year was the Kodak Brownie released?
a)
1861
b)
1900
c)
1933
d)
1955
5.
In what year was color photography invented?
a)
1861
b)
1907
c)
1963
d)
1999
6.
What year did Steve Sasson at Kodak build the  first working CCD-based digital camera?
a)
1975
b)
1963
c)
1990
d)
1999
7.
What year was the Camera phone introduced by the Sharp corporation? 
a)
1955
b)
1990
c)
2005
d)
2000
8.
What year was Adobe Photoshop first released?
a)
1900
b)
1990
c)
2005
d)
2003
9.
What year did a first person appear in a photograph?
a)
1838
b)
1900
c)
1768
d)
1909
10.
Who was the French inventor who teamed up with Niepce to make the phototgraphic process quicker?
a)
Miles Davis
b)
Neal Armstrong
c)
Louis Daguerre
d)
Louis Armstrong
11.
In what year was auto-focus technology introduced?
a)
1985
b)
1955
c)
1990
d)
2003
12.
What was the first instant camera?
a)
Brownie
b)
Polaroid
c)
Camera Obscure
d)
Daguerreotype
13.
The greek root word "photo" means
a)
picture
b)
write
c)
happy
d)
light
14.
Who took the very first photo?
a)
Louis Daguerre
b)
Robert Cornelius
c)
George Eastman
d)
Joseph Niepce
15.
This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the opposite wall.
a)
Kodak Brownie
b)
Camera Obscura
c)
Polaroid
d)
Daguerreotype
16.
In what year was this first photographic image made?
a)
1816
b)
1826
c)
1941
d)
1778
17.
The word photography literally means what?
a)
light sculpture
b)
sun writing
c)
bright messages
d)
light writing
18.
Who was the photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration who made the now famous image known as "Migrant Mother?" 
a)
Hine
b)
Brady
c)
Lange
d)
Liebovitz
19.
This photographer was able to change laws in Congress with his images of child labor.
a)
Ansel Adams
b)
Margaret Burke White
c)
Lewis Hine
d)
Edward Curtis
20.
This photographer created a paper negative called the calotype.
a)
Henry Talbot
b)
Minor White
c)
Frank Matsura
d)
Imogene Cunningham