Before the late 1870s
Elements of Photography
More history late 1870 to modernism
More History - Modernism
Random but not so Random
100

Is a natural optical phenomenon that happens when the scene on the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in the screen and forms a mirror image on the surface opposite the opening. 

What is camera obscura?

100

Used in photographs to move your eye around the image, lady your eye to the focal point, create texture, pattern, and emphasis

What is line?

100

A device invented by Muybridge that projected stop motions images to create a sense of movement.

What is Zoopraxiscope?

100

Name of a photographic magazine.

What is Camera Work?

100

Formed in 1930s by a group of photographers in the San Francisco Bay area who all had similar styles and interests that put focus on sharp, well exposed images of natural objects and found forms.

What is Group F/64?

200

The first partially captured photographic image was made around 1816.

Who is Nicephore Niepce?

200

Used in photographs to create emphasis, variety, and interest.

What is color?

200

SLR stands for...

What is Single-lens reflex camera?

200

Used photography as a way to project emotion, imaginations, and intent, similar to drawing, painting, and other artistic forms.

What is Pictorialism?

200

One of the most celebrated American photographers who spend much of his life shooting Yellowstone National Park.

Who is Ansel Adams?

300

"View from the Window at Le Gras," 1826 by Niepce was exposed for ____ hours.

What is 8 hours?

300

The arrangement of opposite elements.

What is contrast?

300

1885

What is the birth of film?

300

Was considered the quintessential Pictorialist photographer who was fond of domestic scenes and strong compositions.

Who is Clarence White?

300

Minor White worked with Ansel Adams to develop the zone system and was a founder of this magazine.

What is "Aperture"?

400

Invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé and became availabe world-wide by 1839.

What is Dagerreotype?

400

Used in photography to create a sense of depth, frame the subject matter, and help define the focal point.

What is space?

400
George Eastman invented the first...

What is Kodak camera?

400

A new movement began to rise that championed the very precision that set photography apart from other artistic media.

What is Modernism?

400

Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger

Who are Postmodern Photographers?

500

Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, a process known today as negative-positive, which opened the door for reproducibility.

What is Calotype?

500

Is the placement or arrangement of visual elements in a work of art.

What is composition?

500

Alfred Stieglitz was the father of...

What is Pictorialism?
500

A modernist best known for his photograms, which he called Rayographs, and his solarizations.

Who is Man Ray?

500

She questions notions of what is "normal" by photographing the fringes of society and portraying those society had written off.

Who is Diane Arbus?