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Photography History

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.
What is the significance of this item?
a)
First Kodak camera
b)
First consumer camera
c)
First advertisment
d)
First camera
3.

What was the process to print black & white pics in newspapers?

a)

Halftone

b)

Printing press

c)

Tintype

d)

Darkroom

4.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce

5.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Moholy Nagy

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Joseph Niepce

d)

Edward Weston

6.

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

a)

Joseph Niepce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

Robert Cornelius

d)

George Eastman

7.
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
8.

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

9.

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

a)

8 seconds

b)

8 minutes

c)

8 hours

d)

8 days

10.

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

11.

What style of old photography is like photograms?

a)

wet collodian

b)

camera obscura

c)

calotype

d)

roll film

12.

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

13.
Photography comes from 2 words meaning?
a)
picture/drawing
b)
light/drawing
c)
drawing/color
14.
Why was Louis Daguerre important to Joseph Nicephore Niepce's work?
a)
He took the world's first selfie.
b)
He figured out how to keep the images from fading away.
c)
He gave Niepce a lot of money.
d)
He developed the first ever color film.
15.

What means did people have to remember their loved ones prior to the invention of photography?

a)

creating a silhouette by candle

b)

paintings

c)

mirror

d)

A & B

16.

What did they use to correct the problem they had with creating silhouettes?

a)

a softer pencil lead

b)

device called a physonotrace

c)

gloves to stop smudging

17.

Johann Heinrich Schulze's first experiments involved silver and chalk. What happened to the chalk when mixed with silver and placed in light?

a)

turned a dark color where light touched it

b)

turned a light color where light touched it

c)

did nothing - no color are darkness change

18.

Thomas Wedgewood’s contribution to early photography experiments were not successful because image faded to black

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

19.

The Daguerreotype is...?

a)

Not truly a black and white image

b)

Both positive and negative at the same time

c)

A negative that allows many copies