PHOTO CULTURE POP QUIZ
Copyright 2001 by Michael C. Johnston
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PHOTO CULTURE POP QUIZ
1. Without looking at your camera, give the sequence of full f-stops from 1
to 90.
2. The single best-known North American photograph is believed to be one
taken by Dorothea Lange. What is its title?
3. True or false: You can buy an archival fiber-based fine print of this
photograph from the Federal Government of the United States of America for
$90.
4. True or false: variable-contrast papers have one emulsion layer of
low-contrast that is activated by blue light (filtered by yellow), and a
second emulsion layer of high-contrast that is activated by green light
(filtered by magenta).
5. Circle the one term that does not belong with the others.
actinic
cold-cathode
florescence
diffuse light
6. In focusing an enlarger, which is by far the most critical distance
relationship: the lens to the easel plane, or the the lens to the film
plane?
7. Ansel Adams was one co-inventor of the Zone System. Who was the other?
8. Why would you have to say that the picture that graced the cover of the
first issue of LIFE magazine was not man-made?
9. The photography gallery owner who made Ansel Adams famous (and made them
both a fortune) was Harry Lunn. Name the photography gallery owner who was
famous for bringing avant-guard art to America at the Armory Show.
10. Name his most famous picture.
11. Name his common-law wife.
12. Name the photographer who did the most famous portrait of that
common-law wife.
13. Edward Weston married fairly late in life to the then-25-year-old
Charis Wilson, who modeled for most of his nudes. The marriage survived 11
years, and they remained close thereafter. Wilson never married again. Did
Weston ever marry anyone else?
14. True or false: Henri Cartier-Bresson toured America for the first time
during several months in 1949, taking pictures wherever he went with his
trademark Leica M3 and 50mm Summicron lens. Many of the pictures in his book
_America in Passing_ were from this 1949 trip.
15. In what piece of photographic equipment would you find a nodal point?
16. In what photographic setting would you be most likely to find a gobo?
17. True or false: ISO stands for ³International Standards Organization.²
18. Alfred Eisenstadt made a famous picture of Heinrich Goebbels, Propaganda
Minister of the Third Reich, seated and glaring at the camera and clutching
the arms of the chair. Eduard Steichen made a famous picture of J.P. Morgan,
the ³robber baron² financier, seated and glaring at the camera and clutching
a knife. What kind of knife was it?
19. Philippe Halsman was known for taking pictures of celebrities doing
something. What were they doing?
20. What was the nickname of the inventors of Kodachrome?
21. What was their first name?
22. What was Sam Shere¹s best-known picture a picture of?
23. True or false: like many photojournalists who¹ve taken very well-known
pictures, Shere was simply very lucky, because he was the only photographer
on the scene. His picture was precious because it is unique.
24. Black-and-white film developers have several components; one is the
reducer, one is the accelerator. Of the other _necessary_ components, name
the one that¹s most common.
25. With what corporation are C.E.K. Mees and Sylvia Zawadzki associated?
26. What was Larry Burrows riding in when he was killed?
27. True or false: a 35mm film is 35mm wide.
28. The person widely credited with the invention of photography was a
Frenchman with four names, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. What were the four
names of the Englishman who rightly shares credit with Daguerre?
29. Who once threatened to do a book of photographs called _Son of Women Are
Beautiful_?
30. True or false: the man who discovered fixer also coined the photographic
term ³snapshot.²
31. You¹re photographing with a manual camera. Correctly metering a
checkerboard with 12 black and 12 white squares, you arrive at an exposure
of 1/125th sec. at �/5.6. What would the proper exposure be for the same
checkerboard in the same light if it had 18 white squares and only 6 black
ones?
32. What photographic material would most likely be affected by halation?
33. When asked if he used a motor drive, Richard Avedon said, ³I don¹t need
a motorized camera. I have a motorized....² what?
34. Complete the sentence: ³The negative is the score, the print is the...²
35. True or false: ³Type C² refers to Cibachrome.
36. John Szarkowski once referred to ³the four Big S¹s.² Three of the four
were Steiglitz, Steichen, and Sheeler. Who was the fourth?
37. When Szarkowski said ³color photography has found its Mozart,² to whom
was he referring?
38. In Japan, would the same phrase be more apt to describe Shinzo Maeda or
Y. Maitani?
39. Is it more accurate to say that all telephoto lenses are long-focal
length lenses, or all long-focal length lenses are telephoto lenses, or
both?
40. What English photographer was the model for the photographer in the
Antonioni film ³Blowup²?
41. What photographer was the model for the photographer in the Louis Malle
film ³Pretty Baby²?
42. True or False: Ilford, Ltd. is named for its founder, Sir Henry Ilford,
K.B., who had the good judgment (and good fortune) to recruit the man who
eventually invented variable-contrast printing paper.
43. Which of the following photographers is not Czech: Josef Koudelka, Josef
Sudek, Jan Saudek, or Robert Capa?
44. Photographer Edweard Muybridge is associated with the founder of what
American University?
45. Match each person with the camera type he was or is most closely
associated with.
Edward Weston Rollei TLR
Alfred Eisenstadt Ermanox
Solomon Nikon SLR
Werner Bischoff Graflex Speed Graphic
Jacques Clouseau 8x10 view camera
Galen Rowell Minox
Arthur Fellig Leica M
46. What is by far the most common subject matter of photographs?
47. Who is your favorite photographer?
48. True or false: Max Berek first designed the renowned Tessar-type lens
for Leitz, calling it an ³Elmar.²
49. True or false: Berek named the Leitz Hektor lens after his dog.
50. In Oberkochen, why can¹t you get schnapps in a Schott glass?
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