PHOTO 121 QUIZ 1

Question 10.2 pts

1. Three unrelated inventions/methods created photography: Photo-resist, the negative/positive space, and the ________. 

Group of answer choices

The Niepcetype

The Daguerreotype

The SLR

 

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Question 20.2 pts

2. The first camera to be manufactured in quantity is the Giroux Daguerreotype. The camera consists of _______ boxes with slid apart or together for focusing.

Group of answer choices

4

2

3

 

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Question 30.2 pts

3. One of the first inventors to successfully fixed an image of a camera obscura was Nicephore Niepce. He created a process that uses the light of the sun to expose the plate. He named the process after the Greek word for sun. What is the name of Niepce's process? 

 

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Question 40.2 pts

4. The negative/positive space method (the process of printing the negative back to create a positive image) was invented by this chemist ________________(you only need to write his last name). 

 

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Question 50.2 pts

5. The Daguerreotype camera required long exposure time (5 to 10 minutes) which makes it difficult to keep portrait sitters' head and body steady. This applies to babies as well. The consequences is that most infant portraits are taken during this time.

Group of answer choices

Post mortem

Nap time

Dinner time

 

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Question 60.2 pts

6. The extreme long exposure times of the Daguerreotype also causes portraitures during this period to lack a smile, a facial expression we often see in contemporary portraits.

Group of answer choices

True

False

 

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Question 70.2 pts

7. Who was the photographer credited with taking the first female portrait? (Hint: The model's name is Dorothy Catherine Draper). You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 80.2 pts

8. The first attempt at producing a panoramic image was by this French photographer. He used a Megaskop camera carrying a curved daguerreotype plate. 

Group of answer choices

Barker

Von Martens

Whipple

 

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Question 90.2 pts

9. Inspired by Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the British initiated the Survey Movement, a systematic photography to create historic records. This first movement resulted in the establishment of the NPRA of 1897, which encouraged both professional and amateur photographers to take pictures of British architectures and folk customs. NPRA is an acronym for?

Group of answer choices

New Photographer Roundtable Agents

National Photography Research Association

National Photographic Record Association

 

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Question 100.2 pts

10. Who was the first western travel photographer to capture images of Japan (hint: An Italian in Yokohama in 1863)? You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 110.2 pts

11. Inventors such as Disderi and Dodero found ways to produce small card size prints simultaneously which gave rise to small portraits, also known as calling cards or cartes de visite. European royalties such as Napoleon III and this British queen helped promote this phenomena by allowing their cartes de visite portraits to be sold by the millions. 

Group of answer choices

Elizabeth

Victoria

Mary

 

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Question 120.2 pts

12. All new forms of art and technology face backlash from established norms. The same applied to photography. Painters either reject it altogether, use photographs as a reference for their painting, or use photographs to mimic a painting. This British artist was the latter. He used photography like a painting. He staged his scenes then combined several negatives to make a final image with the effect of a pre-Raphaelite painting. His famous photograph "Fading Away" was a culmination of 5 different negatives to stage a deathbed scene.

Group of answer choices

Nadar

Fenton

Robinson

 

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Question 130.2 pts

13. Considered the father of art photography. Known for his photomontage. He was the first photographer to show nude images. You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 140.2 pts

14. The first celebrity photographer was a self-taught, late-start photographer who got her camera at age 48. She became well known for taking portraits of her famous neighbors such as Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning.

Group of answer choices

Carroll

Cameron

Hawarden

 

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Question 150.2 pts

15. Name the first war (1853-56) to be documented with photography (Hint: Not the American Civil War).

 

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Question 160.2 pts

16. Who was the first photographer sent to cover the Crimean war? You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 170.2 pts

17. The Crimean War was the first conflict to be captured in photograph. The next war to be under the camera scrutiny was the American Civil War. Photographs for the Civil War were used for documentation, reconnaissance, propaganda, promote the abolition of slavery, and to create the public persona of this American President __________________. You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 180.2 pts

18. Known for his photographs of the American Civil War. The first photographer to show images of the dead. You only need to write his last name.

 

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Question 190.2 pts

19. In the late 1870s, photographers replaced the wet-collodion process with a safer processing method using _______, a protein made from animal bones and animal tissues.

 

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Question 200.2 pts

20. The invention of __________ plate allowed light sensitive silver salts to be carried directly on the plate and the use of gelatin to carry the silver salts. (Hint: Silver is NOT the correct word).