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History of Photography

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 22mins

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

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

3.
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
4.

What is the photo mechanical method?

a)

The process of printing with photosensitive material.

b)

The process of printing a photo with chemicals.

c)

The process of printing a photo on paper using ink.

5.

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

a)

Joseph Niepce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

Robert Cornelius

d)

George Eastman

6.

The first camera ever created was called the

a)

Polaroid

b)

Silver Snapshot

c)

Camera Obscura

d)

Tin Typer

7.

Which chemist made the first surviving photographic image?

a)

Claude Monet

b)

Joseph Niepce

c)

Louis Daguerre

d)

John Herschel

8.

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

a)

Louis Daguerre

b)

Ansel Adams

c)

Robert Capa

d)

John Herschel

9.

Which inventor created the "calotype" on paper coated with silver?

a)

William Henry Fox Talbot

b)

John Herschel

c)

Louis Daguerre

d)

Joseph Niepce

10.

"Tintype" photographs were made on thin ____________ plates instead of glass.

a)

glass

b)

oil

c)

paper

d)

metal

11.

Which artist was the first photographer to take photos from a hot air balloon?

a)

Louis Daguerre

b)

Robert Capa

c)

Nadar

d)

Joseph Neipce

12.

Which photographer devoted his career to capturing motion through photography?

a)

Louis Daguerre

b)

Eadweard Muybridge

c)

Robert Capa

d)

John Herschel

13.

Which style of photography became popular because it gave an accurate representation of land, cities and landmarks?

a)

Art

b)

Documentation

c)

Landscape

d)

Abstract

14.

Which type of landscape daguerreotype was much wider than it was high?

a)

portrait

b)

panoramic

c)

cube

d)

art

15.

Which type of photography is created with the intent to inform?

a)

Art

b)

Documentation

c)

Landscape

d)

Abstract

16.

Which American photographer photographed the Native Americans and their cultures and traditions?

a)

John Herschel

b)

Edward Curtis

c)

Robert Capa

d)

Ansel Adams

17.

Which American photographer spent years photographing scenes from the Civil War?

a)

Robert Capa

b)

Ansel Adams

c)

Matthew Brady

d)

Nadar

18.

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

a)

Ansel Adams

b)

Alfred Steiglitz

c)

Arnold Newman

d)

Lewis Hine

19.

Which American photographer and environmentalist took black and white landscape photographs of the American West?

a)

Robert Capa

b)

Arnold Newman

c)

Ansel Adams

d)

Alexander Gardner

20.
What is the significance of this image?
a)
First Photograph
b)
Calotype
c)
Wet Plate 
d)
Surreal 
21.
What is the significance of this image?
a)
First Photograph
b)
Calotype
c)
Wet Plate 
d)
Daguerrotype
22.
First person to record images on a surface.
a)
Joseph Niepce
b)
Louis Daguerre
c)
Robert Cornelius
d)
George Eastman
23.
Invented paper-based film.
a)
Joseph Niepce
b)
Louis Daguerre
c)
Robert Cornelius
d)
George Eastman
24.
Took the first picture of a person (shoe shiner).
a)
Joseph Niepce
b)
Louis Daguerre
c)
Robert Cornelius
d)
George Eastman
25.
He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film. 
a)
Edward Muybridge
b)
George Eastman
c)
Luis Daguerre
d)
James Clerk Maxwell
26.
What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)
a)
Polaroid
b)
Kodak Brownie
c)
Camera Obscura
d)
Daguerreotype
27.
What was the first instant camera? (year: 1947)
a)
Brownie
b)
Polaroid
c)
Camera Obscura
d)
Daguerreotype
28.
What is the significance of this item?
a)
First Kodak camera
b)
First consumer camera
c)
First advertisment
d)
First camera
29.
What was the first attempt at photography?
a)
Brownie
b)
Polaroid
c)
Camera Obscure
d)
Daguerreotype 
30.
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.