Quiz 1 History of Photography

Question 1

Boulevard du Temple

Answer 1

Photographer: Daguerre
Date: 1838
Facts: First photograph of a human being, exposure times from 5-60 min, early milestone in photography

Question 2

Self-Portrait of a Drowned Man

Answer 2

Photographer: Hyppolyte Bayard
Date: 1840
Facts: First known staged photograph, a satirical series of photos made because Bayard felt he didn’t get credit for his contribution to photography,

Question 3

Large Speos (Temple of Ramses II)

Answer 3

Photographer: Felix Teynard
Date: 1851-1852
Facts: Part of his “Egypt et Nubie” book, was significant because it allowed people to see the cites of Egypt when before they could only read about it, also dispelled myths about ancient Egypt

Question 4

Valley of The Shadow of Death

Answer 4

Photographer: Roger Fenton
Date: 1855
Facts: Taken during the Crimean War, first iconic photograph of war, it is now known that the cannon balls were added later thus making it staged

Question 5

A Harvest of Death

Answer 5

Photographer: Timothy O’Sullivan
Date: July 4th 1863
Facts: Shows the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg days after battle ended, first photo of actual dead bodies from a battle and were ransacked and looted, still showed the limitations of war photography because it wasn’t safe enough to take the pictures during the battle

Question 6

The Four Condemned Conspirators

Answer 6

Photographer: Alexander Gardner
Date: July 7th, 1865
Facts: First photo showing a public execution, the execution of the conspirators of Lincoln’s assassination, part of a sequence meant to provide a sense of retribution to a grieving public

Question 7

Colorado River

Answer 7

Photographer: Timothy O’Sullivan
Date: 1871
Facts: Part of the Engineer Corps Geological and geographical surveys, part of Westward expansion and manifest destiny, photograph showed man’s relation to the enormity of nature. A self portrait that shows O’Sullivan and the boat he used as a darkroom.

Question 8

Fading Away

Answer 8

Photographer: Henry Peach Robinson
Date: 1858
Facts: a composite printing showing the sky and foreground both visible, depicts a staged scene of a family’s final moments with daughter succumbing to illness, part of a dramatized series of photographs that caused controversy for it being too real (subject matter) and too fake (compositing and staged nature)

Question 9

The Steerage

Answer 9

Photographer: Alfred Stieglitz
Year: 1907
Facts: Image was taken by Stieglitz while on a boat to Europe and depicts lower class passengers on the boat, an element of romanticism of lower class and immigrants while also showing them in a commentary of class and rejection from Ellis Island, a shift from pictorialism to modernism

Question 10

Blessed Art Thou Among Women

Answer 10

Photographer: Gertrude Kasebier
Year: 1899
Facts: Depicts the idealized lives of women, evoked emotions about motherhood, showed her knowledge of what to leave out of photographs in order to draw the viewers attention in to the important subject matter

Question 11

Rodin - Le Penseur

Answer 11

Photographer: Edward Steichen
Year: 1902
Facts: Merges together statements of photography, sculpture, and art. A pictorialist portrait of the artist Rodin. Used the artist and the artist’s work as photographic and atmospheric elements

Question 12

Blind Woman

Answer 12

Photographer: Paul Strand
Year: 1916
Facts: Part of a series of candid street portraits, taken with a Garflex Camera, showed brutally direct humanism merged with simplified forms of modernism

Question 13

Bricklayer

Answer 13

Photographer: August Sander
Year: 1928
Facts: depicts the faces of then-modern Germany and people from different social classes. Part of “People of the 20th Century”, objectively captured the appearances of people from different classes and races without judgement.