Sunday, September 19, 2010

Photography Quiz


 Wow this was very interesting. I now know the mysterious origin of the philosophy of people seeing the world upside down, before our eyes correct this.

  1. Sir John Hershel first used the term photography in 1839


  1. The term ‘camera obscura’ means: dark room


  1. The earliest writings about the camera obscura were
       written by Leonardo da Vinci.


  1. Who produced the first photograph in 1827? Nicephore Niepce


  1. Daguerre’s invention in 1937 was called the Daguerreotype


  1. In 1884 George Eastman introduced flexible film


  1. Eadweard Maybridge is famous for recording what?    Motion photography


  1. What did Thomas Eakins invent? A camera that could record several sequential exposures in a single photograph.


  1. ‘Migrant Mother’ is the title of a famous photograph by Dorothea Lange


  1.  What was the first major world disaster to be recorded
       on a photograph? The Hindenburg disaster


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