Big Brother is watching
When were the first reconnaissance photographs introduced?
What was World War I?
Viennese municipal authorities recommended in 1864 that all people in this profession be licensed and given certificates of health with their photographs
Who were prostitutes?
This far-right group used photography to blackmail the patrons of Jewish businesses
Who were the Nazis?
This kind of photograph was the first widespread method, but produced only one positive
What was the Daguerrotype?
What crisis was aggravated by aerial photography?
What was the Cuban missile crisis?
This British scientists used a special photographic technique to disclose the "essence" of sick people, criminals, and Jews
Who was Francis Galton
This photographic technique was used to increase manufacturing efficiency
What is motion study?
Collodion photography was superior to previous methods because it produced a glass negative, making it possible to reproduce as many positives as you wanted, but it came with one huge drawback
This visual methodology is used by government computers across the world to identify people, mostly without their consent
What is facial recognition?
A geologist at the university across the river (that must not be named), he commissioned photographs of slaves for anatomical reasons
Who was Louis Agassiz?
This movie by Charlie Chaplin features a scene lampooning filmic surveillance techniques and the reduction of work to a simple set of movements
What is Modern Times?
This camera revolutionized photography, opening it up to anyone who could press a button
What was the Brownie?
The mugshot was eventually displaced by this recognition methodology because it is more accurate
What is fingerprinting?
The photographs of these men and women were used by government forces to track them down and execute them?
Who were the Communards (Paris, 1871)?
These people refused to be photographed early last century, but not because they were worried photographs would "steal their souls"
Chinese immigrants, many of whom were illegal and feared for their safety
This camera displaced viewfinder cameras. It uses a mirror and a prism to allow the photographer to see through the lens, effectively seeing what the camera sees
What is a Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) camera?
What is a photographic id/"real" id?
These people were displayed as a gallery in police stations across the United States
What was the "Rogue's Gallery"
After Kodak marketed the Brownie in 1888, the availability of cheap, reproducible photographs fueled this method of communication?
What are picture postcards?
Some say Daguerre invented photography, but this man is increasingly credited with an earlier process called the heliotype, using silver chloride and bitumen
Who was Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (ca. 1824)?