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Photo History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the main difference between snapshots and photographs?
a)
Photographs are planned, snapshots are not.
b)
Photographs use the rule of thirds, snapshots do not.
c)
Snapshots are merely recordings of memory
d)
Photographs are artistc interpretations of objects, places or events
2.
What is the significance of this image?
a)
First Photograph
b)
Calotype
c)
Wet Plate 
d)
Surreal 
3.
What is the significance of this item?
a)
First Kodak camera
b)
First consumer camera
c)
First advertisment
d)
First camera
4.

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce

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.

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.

Camera Obscura means

a)

Photography

b)

Dark Chamber

c)

Camera in French

9.

The worlds first photograph was taken in

a)

1806

b)

1826

c)

1876

d)

1906

10.

What is another name for a "pinhole camera?"

a)

Camera Opulent

b)

Camera Obscura

c)

Camera Obsenent

d)

Camera O-Style

11.

Edwin Land was the American inventor whose one-step process for developing and printing photographs created a revolution in photography called "instant photography." What is the original brand of this type of photography?

a)

Instax

b)

Kodak

c)

Canon

d)

Polaroid

12.

When shooting with a Pinhole camera... the image gets inverted upside down.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

List 3 ways you think photography can be useful in society.

4 lines
14.

What is one interesting fact from Photo History you would share with someone who isn't in the class? What did you find surprising and/or exciting?

4 lines
15.

Who is considered the "inventor" of Photography?

a)

Eastman Kodak

b)

Joseph Nicephere Niepce

c)

Louis-Jacques-Monde Daguerre

d)

Samuel Morse

16.

How did camera obscura aid artists?

4 lines
17.

Why were portraits important to people?

4 lines
18.

What concept did this image inspire in the photojournalism/street photography world?

a)

The water theory

b)

Cartier-Bresson motion theory

c)

The decisive moment

d)

The bucket theory

19.

Explain the importance and the impact of this image.

4 lines
20.

Explain the significance of this image.

4 lines