Tuesday, February 11, 2014

First Post, First Quiz, Second Semester





  1. The first photo sent "across the wire" was on January 1st 1935.
  2. The photo that was first sent across telephone wires was a dramatic plane crash.
  3. 25 cities received the first photo.
  4. The Hindenburg was a plane.
  5. The Glenn Miller Orchestra performed In The Mood.
  6. The magazine that used the concept of Picture Magic was called Life.
  7. The United States government agency that documented poverty in the 1930's was Farm Security Agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
  8. The African-American photographer that worked for this agency was Gordon Parks.
  9. The painting that inspired his best known photograph was an American gothic.http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565
  10. The famous landscape photographer shown in the video was Ansel Adams.
  11. The Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7th 1941. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm
  12. A pin up girl was a girl wearing a bathing suit, her hair up and heels.
  13. It was 9 years in between D-Day and the first photo sent "across the wire."
  14. Robert Capa took the famous photos on Normandy Beach during D-Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
  15. Rosenthanl's picture with the American Flag was when they raised the flag.

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