Chapter 16

Question 1

The photographer whose idea was to send teams of photographers to document the Civil War.

Answer 1

Matthew Brady

Question 2

William Henry Fox Talbot is known for:

Answer 2

inventing the calotype (paper photographs)

Question 3

What was a major drawback to the daguerreotype?

Answer 3

lack of reproducibility

Question 4

This New York bank clerk built a company based on offering a simpler way to take pictures with something he called flexible film.

Answer 4

George Eastman

Question 5

In 1948, this scientist/entrepreneur introduced the first instant-print camera called the Polaroid. Like the daguerreotype, every print is unique.

Answer 5

Edwin Land

Question 6

Photographers of this depression-era government agency documented the plight of the homeless and hungry. It was called the FSA, an acronym that stood for the

Answer 6

Farm Security Administration

Question 7

The emergence of the photo essay in the 1930s was in part due to

Answer 7

magazines like Life and Look devoted to photojournalism

Question 8

This genre of photography dominated the field as an art form from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Answer 8

straight photography

Question 9

In America during the early 1900s, this man was the leader and catalyst for photography as an art form. Early in his career, he led a movement of photographers known as the Pictorialists (photo secessionist movement).

Answer 9

Alfred Stieglitz

Question 10

This French inventor created the first photographic image in 1826.

Answer 10

Joseph Niepce

Question 11

Why was color photography not truly accepted in the art world until the 1970s?

Answer 11

Art photographers thought color photography did not have the “classic” look of B/W