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Printing With Light
100
Best known for his large-format views of Yosemite Valley, this photographer was also a consultant for Polaroid - advising them on their product development.
Who is Ansel Adams?
100
This element was used in powdered form to create artificial light in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century before it was incorporated into flashbulbs.
What is magnesium?
100
In 1947 this museum opened in the house of one of medium's great inventors - today it is one of the oldest photography museums in the world.
What is George Eastman House?
100
This bank clerk got into photography after decided to try his hand at real estate in Cuba.
Who is George Eastman?
100
This process invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 became a standard for making prints of architectural drawings in the 20th Century.
What is the cyanotype?
200
Photographer, writer, curator and publisher this famed figure also had the hots for fellow artist Georgia O'Keefe.
Who is Alfred Stieglitz?
200
Originally used by 19th century hunters this term was later used to describe amateur photographs in the 20th century.
What is a snapshot?
200
Holding the largest public collection of the famed Farm Security Administration photographs this Washington-based library holds innumerable other collections related to American history?
What is The Library of Congress?
200
A god-fearing man - this man of the cloth took out the first patent for nitrate film in 1887 but died before receiving recognition for his invention.
Who is the Reverend Hannibal Goodwin?
200
Similar in colour to the albumen process , this commercially manufactured photographic paper incorporated silver-chloride and was limited to making contact prints.
What is printing-out-paper?
300
Originally a constructivist painter from Hungary, this Bauhaus artist experimented with camera-less photographs, photo-montage, and straight photographs characterized by the "new objectivity" movement in Weimar Germany.
Who is Laszlo Moholy-Nagy?
300
Barium and strontium sulfates are used to create this layer on monochrome photographic papers giving the resulting print a brighter and sharper quality.
What is the baryta layer?
300
Long known for having the world's first surviving photograph created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, this Texas-based library also recently acquired the Magnum Archive.
What is the Harry Ransom Center?
300
These two classical musicians - both with the first name Leopold - used a metronome to measure film processing times while working on the development of Kodachrome colour film in the early 1930's.
Who are Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky?
300
Favoured by Pictorialist photographers in the early twentieth century, this hand-made printing process uses a sensitizer, gum arabic and water colour pigment to produce an image.
What is the gum-bichromate process?
400
The celebrated artist of the 1960's once declared he wanted to be a machine. After Polaroid introduced their "Big Shot" instant camera in 1971 - he used it to photograph numerous celebrities ranging from Blondie to Muhammad Ali.
Who is Andy Warhol?
400
This American scientific organization determines the sensitivity of photographic film allowing photographers to use these film speeds to determine the right exposure.
What is the American Standards Association?
400
High atop a hill outside of Los Angeles this famous museum houses an extensive photographic collection while also producing a wide range of printed/online content about the preservation and conservation of photographs.
What is the Getty Museum?
400
This MIT engineering professor is credited with the development of stroboscopic high-speed photography.
Who is Harold Edgerton?
400
Part of the non-silver print process family, this printing out paper was commercially manufactured until just before World War I when most manufactures discontinued production because of the rising cost of the key element required for the emulsion.
What is the platinum printing process?
500
This photographer became famous for his images of the last steam engine trains in the US during late 1950's - all photographed at night and illuminated by elaborate flash set-ups.
Who is Winston Link?
500
Western Union was the first to transmit this kind of photograph using a telegraph system in 1921.
What is a wire photo?
500
In 1968 this New York museum acquired the collection of Atget negatives and prints from Berenice Abbott and Julian Levy.
What is the Museum of Modern Art?
500
These two 19th century British scientists developed the first methods for determining film speed and exposure using a system which plotted film density against the log of exposure to create the "H & D Curve".
Who are Hurter & Driffield?
500
This process was popularized by Kodak in the 1940's and used dyed cyan, magenta and yellow film matrices to create a full colour print.
What is the dye-transfer process?
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