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Photo History Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 3hrs 55mins

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

Who is the photographer of this image?

a)

Edward Weston

b)

Edweard Muybridge

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Joseph Niepce

3.

Photography is Greek for?

a)

picture drawing

b)

light writing

c)

drawing with color

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.
What was the first mass produced camera? (year: 1900)
a)
Polaroid
b)
Kodak Brownie
c)
Camera Obscura
d)
Daguerreotype
8.

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

a)

8 seconds

b)

8 minutes

c)

8 hours

d)

8 days

9.

Which of these projects an inverted image through a small hole on the opposite side from that opening.

a)

Photogravure

b)

Heliography

c)

Daguerreotype

d)

Camera Obscura

10.

A pinhole camera is most similar to which?

a)

Brownie

b)

Calotype

c)

Wet Collodian

d)

Camera Obscura

11.

Eastman's Brownie became more popular than his first camera, what was it named?

a)

the Kodak

b)

The Polaroid

c)

The Lyca

d)

The iPhone

12.

Why was the brownie camera important?

a)

It was affordable, allowing most of the public to have access to photography for the first time;

b)

It contained the first ever rolls of film.

c)

It was the first camera created from a chocolate brownie.

d)

It was expensive and was only affordable to the very wealthy.

13.
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
14.

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

15.

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

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The S in SLR stands for

a)

Shutter

b)

Single

c)

Safe

d)

Sight

17.

SLR stands for what?

a)

Solo Light Range

b)

Slim Low Rider

c)

Single Lens Reflex

d)

Slack Leveling Rim

18.

What is photojournalism? Where have you seen it today?

4 lines
19.

In Still Life Photography what is the subject of your photograph? Give 2-5 examples.

4 lines
20.

What type of commercial photography is this?

a)

Portrait

b)

Lifestyle

c)

Landscape

d)

Architecture

21.

What type of commercial photography is this?

a)

Fashion

b)

Lifestyle

c)

Landscape

d)

Wildlife

22.

What type of commercial photography is this?

a)

Fashion

b)

Family

c)

Landscape

d)

Wildlife

23.

This is a -

a)

Fashion portrait

b)

Lifestyle portrait

c)

Family portrait

d)

Headshot portrait

24.

What does SLR stand for?

a)

Specialty Less Reflex

b)

Single Lens Reflex

c)

Single Line Reciprocal

d)

Sport Lens Rental

25.

You can practice this type of photography in your backyard

a)

Portrait

b)

Landscape

c)

Wildlife

d)

Commercial

26.

What type of photography is this?

a)

Portrait

b)

Landscape

c)

Wildlife

d)

Commercial

27.

What type of photography is this?

a)

Portrait

b)

Landscape

c)

Wildlife

d)

Commercial

28.

What type of photography is this?

a)

Portrait

b)

Landscape

c)

Wildlife

d)

Commercial

29.

Self-employed photojournalists are often referred to as _________________.

a)

contractors

b)

part-timers

c)

freelancers

d)

on-call-shooters

30.

Photographers who produce still pictures or videos for newspapers, magazines and electronic media are called ...

a)

commercial photographers

b)

videographers

c)

photojournalists

d)

cinematographers

31.

Professional photographers who make all or most of their living from photographic work.

a)

cinematographers

b)

commercial photographers

c)

photojournalists

d)

videographers

32.

A book or binder displaying a photographers best work is called ...

a)

Composition

b)

Portraiture

c)

Portfolio

d)

Photojournalists

33.

Self-employed photographers, who seek business from many different employers are called ...

a)

commercial photographers

b)

videographers

c)

photojournalists

d)

freelancers

34.

Please select the photographer of this image.

a)

Annie Leibovitz

b)

Dorthea Lange

c)

Duane Michals

d)

Henri Cartier Bresson

35.

What was the significance of this photograph?

a)

The style of the reflection in the water

b)

The decisive moment the image is taken

c)

The style of the motion of the subject leaving the frame.

d)

The high contrast between light and dark.