Photography and Realism

This is a small dark room, where a small hole at one end projects an image on the opposite wall.

• Kodak Brownie
• Camera Obscura
• Polaroid
• Daguerreotype

This person made the first permanent photographic image.

• Morse
• Daguerre 
• Niepce
• Talbot

Why was Louis Daguerre important to Joseph Nicephore Niepce's work?

• He took the world's first selfie.
• He figured out how to make the photographic process quicker
• He created Heliography
• He developed the first ever color film.

How long did the first photograph take to expose? 

• 5 hours
• 4 hours
• 10 hours
• 8 hours

Why is this photo , taken by Daguerre, historically important? 

• It was the first time a human being was photographed.
• It is the earliest surviving photograph
• It was the first photo using a digital camera
• It was the first photo of buildings

Who took the first "portrait" in 1839? It happened to be a selfie.

• Louis Daguerre
• Robert Cornelius
• Joseph Niepce
• George Eastman

This photographer created a paper negative called the calotype in 1840.

• Henry Talbot
• Minor White
• Frank Matsura
• Imogene Cunningham

Gustav Courbet’s The Stone Breakers was controversial because:

• It depicted dirty, tired workers turned away from the viewer.
• It was too abstract.
• It had too many bright colors.

Realism responds to what historical periods

• Renaissance & Enlightenment
• Enlightenment & French Revolution
• Enlightenment & Industrial Revolution
• Absolutism & Industrial Revolution

Realism is defined as

• a representation of a fleeting moment.
• accurate depiction of the ordinary
• imitating the classics from Greece and Rome
• portrays the ideal leader, experience, or memory.