Photography

Question 1

Camera Obscura

Answer 1

an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen

Question 2

Calotype

Answer 2

an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide.

Question 3

Daguerreotype

Answer 3

The first commercially successful photographic process by Louis Daguerre. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate.

Question 4

Carte-de-Visite

Answer 4

A type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854.

Question 5

The Pencil of Nature (1844)

Answer 5

The first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published, by William Talbot.

Question 6

Answer 6

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre: Boulevard du Temple (1838)

Question 7

Answer 7

William Talbot: The Open Door (1843)

Question 8

Answer 8

Mathew Brady: Abraham Lincoln (1860)

Question 9

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Timothy O’Sullivan: A Harvest of Death (1863)

Question 10

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Julia Margaret: Cameron Thomas Carlyle (1867)