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History of Photography

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the significance of this image?
a)
First Photograph
b)
Calotype
c)
Wet Plate 
d)
Surreal 
2.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Moholy Nagy

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Joseph Niepce

d)

Edward Weston

3.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce

4.

Photography is Greek for?

a)

picture drawing

b)

light writing

c)

drawing with color

5.

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

a)

Joseph Niepce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

Robert Cornelius

d)

George Eastman

6.
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
7.

He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film.

a)

Edweard Muybridge

b)

George Eastman

c)

Luis Daguerre

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

8.
What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)
a)
Polaroid
b)
Kodak Brownie
c)
Camera Obscura
d)
Daguerreotype
9.

This person invented the first true digital camera in 1975. Kodak didn't like it and passed on the idea.

a)

Steve Sasson

b)

Dr Edwin Land

c)

George Eastman

d)

Joseph Niepce

10.

How long was the exposure time for the first ever photographic image?

a)

8 seconds

b)

8 minutes

c)

8 hours

d)

8 days

11.

Which of these projects an inverted image through a small hole on the opposite side from that opening.

a)

Photogravure

b)

Heliography

c)

Daguerreotype

d)

Camera Obscura

12.

The photo-chemical process in the darkroom goes in which order?

a)

fixer - stop bath - developer

b)

developer - stop bath - fixer

c)

developer - fixer - stop bath

d)

stop bath - developer - fixer

13.

Who developed the first camera using digital electronics to capture and store images?

a)

Steven Sasson, an engineer from Kodak, in 1975

b)

Sammy Silverado, a documentary photographer in 1964

c)

Michelle Smith, an inventor, in 1922

d)

Rishka Romma, a celebrity blogger, in 2017

14.

A pinhole camera is most similar to which?

a)

Brownie

b)

Calotype

c)

Wet Collodian

d)

Camera Obscura

15.

What style of old photography is like photograms?

a)

wet collodian

b)

camera obscura

c)

calotype

d)

roll film

16.

Which if these is not a step in the process of making a Daguerreotype?

a)

clean and polish the copper plate

b)

expose it in a box to an iodine vapor

c)

take the likeness

d)

load the film

17.

Eastman's Brownie became more popular than his first camera, what was it named?

a)

the Kodak

b)

The Polaroid

c)

The Lyca

d)

The iPhone

18.

Which of these is NOT something they started using photography for in the 1800s

a)

Art

b)

Documenting

c)

Portraits

d)

Travel Photography

19.

Photographs are

a)

Objective

b)

Subjective