History of Photography
I’m working on a History exercise and need support.
Instructions: If there are no choices for a question then it is a true/false question. Put A if it’s true and B if it’s false.
1. Photographer Matthew Brady expected to get rich from his photographs of the Civil War. Why didn’t he?
a. Because the photos weren’t good. b. The government seized his photos.
c. The public did not want to be reminded of the war after it was over.
2. The photo of the beaten face of teenager Emmett Till:
a. Was not seen for more than 10 years after the crime because it was considered too sensational and too graphic.
b. Set into motion events that led to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
3. The D-Day invasion of Europe during World War II:
a. Was not covered by photographers because the battlefield was too violent to all the media access.
b. Was covered by photographers but most of the images were destroyed in a darkroom accident.
4. Which of these wars was the first one to be covered photographically?
a. World War II.
b. World War I.
c. The Civil War.
5. Which of the following statements is true about Kodak?
a. It was a historic photo company that popularized film and cameras but failed to respond when photography went digital.
b. It was a historic photo company that popularized film and cameras before developing the first digital camera and is the leading manufacturer of digital cameras today.
6. Life Magazine ushered in the era of large format photo magazines in the:
a. 1920s.
b. 1930s.
c. 1940s.
7. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Life Magazine came out before television took hold in American homes.
b. Life Magazine came out after television was in the majority of American homes.
8. The FSA photo project was part of which president’s administration?
a. John Kennedy.
b. Richard Nixon.
c. Dwight Eisenhower.
d. Franklin Roosevelt.
e. None of the above.
9. Photographers often manipulated Civil War battle scenes to make them look more grim for their photo.
10. Which of the following events inspired the Neil Young song “Ohio?”
a. The Watts riots.
b. The anti-Vietnam march in Washington in 1968.
c. The shooting of four college students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen.
11. Photographers had their greatest access to cover which of the following wars?
a. World War II.
b. World War I.
c. The Vietnam War.
12. Which came first?
a. Life Magazine.
b. Television.
c. World War II.
13. Which of the following photographs was one of the most famous to come out of the FSA project?
a. The photo of Emmett Till.
b. The photo of the migrant mother.
c. The photo of a Japanese Skull.
14. The Kodak company is credited with which of the following:
a. Inventing photography.
b. Making photography affordable to Americans.
15. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Photography had a huge impact in bringing attention to the civil rights movement of the 1960s?
b. Photography worked against the civil rights movement of the 1960s making it harder for those who wanted to see the laws changed.
16. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Photography is considered to be more trustworthy than other media because of the belief that “seeing is believing.”
b. Photography is considered to be less trustworthy than other media because the public knows how easy photographs can be changed and manipulated.
17. Which of the following magazines recently devoted an entire issue to “race” and acknowledged that much of its coverage for decades has been racist?
a. National Geographic.
b. Time.
c. Life.
18. When did photography replace drawings in newspapers?
a. The 1920s.
b. The 1930s.
c. The 1940s.
19. Which magazine showed the photos of every soldier killed over a one week time period in the Vietnam War?
a. National Geographic.
b. Time Magazine.
c. Life Magazine.
20. Photos of this event led to a public outcry and to laws being changed.
a. The Japanese internment.
b. The mistreatment of circus animals.
c. The harsh working conditions of child laborers.
21. Which came first?
a. The Civil War.
b. Film for cameras.
22. Photography was one of the few media-related jobs in the 1930s and 1940s where women distinguished themselves and were just as famous as their male counterparts.,
23. Facebook received widespread condemnation for removing this photo from its platform because the company claimed the image violated its policies.
a. The photo of the beaten face of teenager of Emmett Till.
b. The photo of the man being shot in the head during the Vietnam War.
c. The photo taken during the Vietnam War of the naked girl running toward the camera.
24. The civil rights movement unofficially kicked off with the publication of this photo:
a. A lynching in Alabama.
b. The battered face of Emmett Till.
c. Gordon Parks’ photo of the cleaning woman holding her mop.
25. The government censored photo coverage by the media during this war:
a. The civil war.
b. World War I.
c. World War II.
26. This was the last decade that magazines were the primary source of photography for the public before television took over that role:
a. The 1940s.
b. The 1930s.
c. The 1950s.
27. Which came first?
a. The FSA.
b. Lewis Hines’ photo of child labor.
c. The internment of the Japanese during World War II.
28. A photographer hid a camera that was strapped around his ankle to take a photo of this rarely seen event:
a. A lynching in Alabama.
b. A firing squad shooting a man in Spain.
c. The electrocution of a woman in Sing Sing Prison.
29. Following the extraordinary photo coverage of this war which led to negative public opinion the government clamped down on media’s access to covering war.
a. World War II.
b. The Vietnam War.
c. The Gulf War.
30. This historic photo was used by the government to raise millions of dollars and stir patriotism:
a. Robert Capa’s photo of the D-Day invasion.
b. The flag raising photo on Iowa Jima.
c. A soldier crying over the flag-draped coffin of his friend.
31. Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese internment camps:
a. Were published in magazines and newspapers during World War II.
b. Were not seen for decades because the government suppressed them.
32. Ansel Adams’ photos of the Japanese internment:
a. Were criticized because they depicted the Japanese in a harsh, negative light.
b. Were criticized because they portrayed the Japanese as happy despite the harsh conditions they were in.
