WorksheetsHistory of Photography
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
The first camera wasn't really a camera at all. It was a room-sized box with a small hole on one side. This was known as a:
Box Camera
Heliograph
Camera Obscura
Daguerreotype
Which chemist made the first surviving photographic image?
Eadweard Muybridge
Joseph Niepce
Louis Daguerre
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Which inventor created the "daguerreotype" on a copper plate?
Louis Daguerre
Ansel Adams
Robert Capa
John Herschel
Which photographer devoted his career to capturing motion through photography by inventing the zoopraxiscope?
Louis Daguerre
Eadweard Muybridge
Alhazen
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Who was the reporter that invented an indoor flash to photograph the overcrowded slums of New York which led to reformed housing codes?
Jacob Riis
Ansel Adams
Andrew Gardner
Joseph Niepce
This artist promoted photography as a fine art and created the photography magazine "Camera Work"
Ansel Adams
Alfred Steiglitz
Arnold Newman
Lewis Hine
Which photographer took photographs of immigrants and children working in mines and factories to help pass child labor laws?
Lewis Hine
Brassai
Julia Margaret Cameron
Edward Weston
Which photographer is known for being the model, as well as the photographer, where she is dressed up as various characters and are known as "Untitled Film Stills?"
Margaret Bourke-White
Dorothea Lange
Cindy Sherman
Sandy Skoglund
How does a camera obscura work?
Items are placed on top of glass painted with silver salts and put into the sun, taking a temporary "sun picture."
A small light-tight box is filled with film, allowing photographers to take up to 100 pictures at a time.
A shutter opens in the camera, allowing light to hit a sensor and capture an image permanently.
All light is blocked out in a room, except for a small pinhole. Through the pinhole, the image of the outside is projected onto the opposite wall.
Who was NOT one of the people given credit for the creation of the camera obscura?
Aristotle
Mozi
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Ibn al-Haytham (aka Alhazen)
Which TWO concepts was Frederick Scott Archer known for creating:
Collodion Process
Daguerreotype
Autochrome Process
Zone System
What cameras would you see a professional use TODAY (select all that apply).
Point & Shoot
DSLR
35 mm Film camera
Mirrorless
TLR
