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100
One of these came before the other: the daguerreotype or the Kodak camera.
What is the daguerreotype?
100
This person took the first photograph ever.
Who is Joseph Nicéphore Niépce?
100
This French gentleman invented the daguerreotype.
Who is Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre?
100
This person was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Kodak company which revolutionized photography by making it accessible and affordable for the average person.
Who is George Eastman?
100
Muybridge's motion study photographs of horses decided this question once and for all.
Did a horse's hooves, while galloping, come all the way of the ground all at once?
200
This is the decade that Niépce and Daguerre worked together.
What is 1820s?
200
A Frenchman took what is acknowledged to be the first photo ever in this year.
What is 1826
200
This photographer produced over 40,000 Native American photographs.
Who is Edward Sherfiff Curtis?
200
This slogan helped make the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera extremely popular.
What is “You press the button, we do the rest”
200
Julia Margaret Cameron and Nadar were famous for these type of photographs.
What are "Portraits"?
300
Louis Daguerre was born in this country.
What is France?
300
This device is a natural optical phenomenon, traditionally a darkened room, box, or chamber with a small hole or lens in one wall.
What is the "camera obscura"?
300
In 1844 this book was created by William Henry Fox Talbot. It is notable for being the first commercially published book to be illustrated with photographs.
What is The Pencil of Nature?
300
This was the year that the Kodak camera invented.
What is 1888?
300
This person did the first large scale documentation of war during the Crimean War, 1855.
Who is Roger Fenton?
400
This photographic breakthrough happened in 1839.
What is the daguerreotype?
400
This is the Latin name for Dark Chamber ?
What is camera obscura?
400
This person was the most photographed African American in the late 1800s. He was the most photographed American man of his time, including more portraits than even Abraham Lincoln. Douglass deliberately used photography as a powerful tool to create an accurate and dignified representation of Black Americans during a period when racist caricatures were common.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
400
The early Kodak Brownie camera democratized photography and popularized the “snapshot,” shifting image‑making into everyday family life and leisure, expanding amateur photo culture, and could take this many exposures.
What is 6?
400
Mathew Brady (c. 1822–1896) was an American photographer best known for his pioneering work in documenting this major event in American history earning him the title “father of photojournalism.”
What The Civil War?
500
The word ____________comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for “light,” and graph, for “drawing” -- “Drawing with light”
What is Photography?
500
Early exposure times in the beginning of photography were long. Niepce had to wait this long for the first photo to be properly exposed.
What is 8 hours?
500
This person invented stereographs, also called stereograms or stereo views, are pairs of nearly identical photographs taken from slightly different angles, approximately the same distance apart as human eyes. When viewed through a device called a stereoscope, these paired images merge into a single three-dimensional (3D) image, creating an illusion of depth.
Who is Charles Wheatstone?
500
This camera was designed to be an inexpensive and easy-to-use box camera aimed particularly at making photography accessible to children and the general public. The camera was priced at just one dollar and quickly gained popularity due to its simplicity and affordability.
What is the Brownie?
500
This photo titled "Fading Away" was produced by this photographer and was considered by critics to be a too painful a subject for photography.
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Who is O.G. Rejlander?