Friday, February 21, 2014

Period 1, Photo 1 Quiz 1

1. The first photo sent "across the wire" was January 1st 1935.

2. The first photo sent "across the wire" was a plane crash in black and white.

3. 25 cities received the first photo.

4. The LZ 129 Hindenburg was a falling, crashed blimp.

5. The Glenn Miller Orchestra performed a popular tune known as "In the mood."

6. "Life" magazine was the first magazine to use Picture Magic.

7. Farm Security Agency(FSA) was the first United Stated government agency to document poverty in the 1930's.

8. Gordon Parks was the first African American to work for the Farm Security Agency.

9. The painting to inspire Gordon Parks first photograph was "American Gothic"(1930)

10. Joe Rosenthal was the famous landscape photographer shown in the video.

11. Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941.

12. A pin-up girl was a woman in a bathing suit to pick up in your own way.

13.The difference between D-day and the first photo sent "across the wire" was 14 years.

14. Rosenthal took the famous photo on Normandy Beach.

15. Soldiers rising a flag on Iwa Jima.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014