History of Photo I: Quiz 2

Question 1

The inventor of the double coated paper negative?

Answer 1

Blanquart-Evrard

Question 2

The inventor of the albumen plate?

Answer 2

Niepce de St Victoire

Question 3

The first photo-artist who developed the process of waxing the calotype negative?

Answer 3

Legray

Question 4

Why was the waxed paper process such an improvement?

Answer 4

Gets rid of the paper fibers so it is sharper.

Question 5

The inventor of the wet plate process?

Answer 5

Archer

Question 6

This paper would be the paper of choice from the 1850’s to the early 1890’s?

Answer 6

Albumen

Question 7

Who invented Albumen?

Answer 7

Blanquart-Evrard

Question 8

Who were the inventors of the Ambrotype?

Answer 8

Archer & Fry

Question 9

Describe how an ambrotype was made and for what purpose?

Answer 9

Ambrotype was made by coating a piece of glass with iodide and collodion and developing while still wet. It was a negative with a black velvet behind it. It was used for portraits and jewelry.

Question 10

French photographer who, although his direct paper process never caught on, was a master of the calotype process and participated in the documentation of historic monuments and sites in France?

Answer 10

Bayard

Question 11

The originator of the Carte de Visite process?

Answer 11

Dideri

Question 12

What was a cabinet photograph?

Answer 12

A Carte de Visite on steroids. It was a large version of it.

Question 13

This photographer travelled to the far east and made superb images with albumen plates with a developing process he jealously guarded?

Answer 13

Felice Beato

Question 14

British photographer who photographed panoramic and stereoscopic views in Egypt and Palestine with the wet-plate process?

Answer 14

Frith

Question 15

Briton considered the first war photographer because of his work in the crimea?

Answer 15

Fenton

Question 16

Name at least 3 members of the heliographic society?

Answer 16

1. Bayard
2. Lesecq
3. Legray
4. Baldus
5. Mestral

Question 17

American portrait photographer whose friendship with Lincoln enabled him to send his photographers anywhere he wished?

Answer 17

Brady

Question 18

Many photographers left the employ of Brady. Why?

Answer 18

Because of the absence of credit.

Question 19

What was the Heliographic Society?

Answer 19

The French government selected five photographers to make photographic surveys of the nation’s architectural patrimony. They were intended to aid the Paris-based commission in determining the nature and urgency of the preservation and restoration of work required at historic sites throughout France.

Question 20

Bonus 1: What is the difference between a dilute albumen print and a conventional albumen print?

Answer 20

Diluted is more matte and conventional is more glossy.