Q 01/05

The 1989 'Tank Man' photographs show a man blocking a column of tanks in which city?

A) Beijing

B) Prague

C) Budapest

D) Moscow

Answer · why

A) Beijing

Beijing: the day after troops cleared Tiananmen Square, a man carrying shopping bags stepped in front of the lead tank and kept shifting to block it; ...

Q 02/05

Which 1839 photographic process produced a direct positive on a silver-plated copper sheet?

A) Daguerreotype

B) Cyanotype

C) Ambrotype

D) Calotype

Answer · why

A) Daguerreotype

The daguerreotype spread quickly because the French state bought the secret, paying Louis Daguerre a pension, and published the process for anyone to ...

Q 03/05

Which 1841 Fox Talbot process used paper negatives to make multiple prints?

A) Calotype

B) Wet Collodion

C) Daguerreotype

D) Platinum Print

Answer · why

A) Calotype

Calotype prints never spread as widely as they might have, because Talbot patented the process in England and beyond; Scots, outside the patent's reac...

Q 04/05

Who is credited with taking the world's first permanent photograph?

A) Frederick Scott Archer

B) Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

C) William Henry Fox Talbot

D) Louis Daguerre

Answer · why

B) Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce coated a pewter plate with bitumen, which hardens in light, and left it facing his window; the exposure took at least eight ho...

Q 05/05

What was Frederick Scott Archer's 1851 glass-plate negative method called?

A) Albumen on glass

B) Gelatin dry plate

C) Ferrotype plate

D) Wet Collodion Process

Answer · why

D) Wet Collodion Process

The Wet Collodion Process was many times faster than earlier methods, yet Archer published it without a patent and died in poverty in 1857.