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  • 1. 
    Charles Nègre is known for:

  • inventing the first camera
  • inventing a method to photograph night scenes
  • his photographs of Paris
  • his photographs of cats and dogs

  • 2. 
    The famous photograph titled Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville (1950) was taken by:

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Robert Doisneau
  • Eugène Atget
  • André Kertész

  • 3. 
    Alfred Steiglitz was a champion of what type of photography?

  • all of these
  • Pictorialism
  • straight photography
  • fine art photography

  • 4. 
    Which of these photographers was also a director of the MoMA’s photography department?

  • Walker Evans
  • Berenice Abbott
  • Edward Weston
  • Edward Steichen

  • 5. 
    Which one of the following was NOT a street photographer?

  • Garry Winogrand
  • Lee Friedlander
  • Brassaï
  • Ansel Adams

  • 6. 
    Who is credited with coining the term the “decisive moment”?

  • Robert Frank
  • John Szarkowski
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Dorothea Lange

  • 7. 
    Robert Frank published a seminal book of street photography titled:

  • Places
  • Street Life
  • The Americans
  • New Documents

  • 8. 
    William Eggleston is known for what?

  • photographs of New York City
  • Surrealist photos of plants and trees
  • color photographs
  • photos of famous actors

  • 9. 
    This photographer’s large archive of work created in the mid-20th century was discovered by chance in 2007.

  • Vivian Maier
  • Margaret Bourke-White
  • Elliott Erwitt
  • Julia Margaret Cameron

  • 10. 
    The “Rayograph” was invented by:

  • Lucia Moholy
  • Man Ray
  • Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
  • Josef Koudelka
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