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History of Photography

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

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.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Moholy Nagy

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Joseph Niepce

d)

Edward Weston

4.

The person to took the first permanent camera image is?

a)

Joseph Niepce

b)

Louis Daguerre

c)

Robert Cornelius

d)

George Eastman

5.
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
6.

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

7.

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

a)

8 seconds

b)

8 minutes

c)

8 hours

d)

8 days

8.
Photography comes from 2 words meaning?
a)
picture/drawing
b)
light/drawing
c)
drawing/color
9.
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.
10.

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

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

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

12.

What style of old photography is like photograms?

a)

wet collodian

b)

camera obscura

c)

calotype

d)

roll film

13.
What was the first instant camera? (year: 1947)
a)
Brownie
b)
Polaroid
c)
Camera Obscura
d)
Daguerreotype
14.

SLR stands for what?

a)

Solo Light Range

b)

Slim Low Rider

c)

Single Lens Reflex

d)

Slack Leveling Rim

15.

Images from digital cameras are formed by

a)

Chemicals

b)

Papers

c)

Electronic signals

d)

Air

16.

Who was the first person to invent the negative?

a)

Cow Talbot

b)

Fox Talbot

c)

George Kodak

d)

Benjamin Franklin

17.

What process helped create Blueprints?

a)

The bluetype

b)

The Cyanotype

c)

The woofmaster

d)

Inverse reactive action

18.

In 1888 what camera did George Eastman invent that revolutionized the world of Photography?

a)

The stamp

b)

The cyanocapture

c)

The Kodak

d)

The Catnip

19.

Photographs of news stories and events that often shape how we think about events and how history is written and understood.

a)

Public Image

b)

Photography as Witness

c)

Sets, Stories and Situation

d)

The Photographic Record

20.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce