Friday Photo Quiz #2
By popular request, we’re back with another Friday Photo Quiz. In honor
of the Academy Awards on Sunday, all of today’s questions relate to
photographers and the movies. Anyone who gets all the answers will
receive the Oscar for Intelligence.
1. What 19th-century photographer best known for his Western
landscapes served as an advisor to the film Gone With the Wind?
2. In the movie Rear Window, star James Stewart portrays a
photojournalist who has been injured while on assignment. What was the
assignment?
3. What camera does Stewart use to do his backyard peeping?
4. The famous credit sequences of two James Bond movies, From
Russia with Love and Goldfinger,were made by graphic designer Robert
Brownjohn. With which avant-garde photographer did Brownjohn once study
under?
5. In what movie did Oscar winner Faye Dunaway play a troubled
fashion photographer? In what movie did she play a troubled fine-art
photographer?
--David Schonauer
Photo from IMDb.com.
1. William Henry Jackson
2. He was assigned to photograph a car race; the car crashed, injuring Stewart's character.
3. Exakta
4. László Moholy-Nagy
5. Eyes of Laura Mars and Three Days of the Condor
Posted by: Liz | February 28, 2007 at 01:01 PM