BrainMass Quizzes Photography Test your introductory knowledge of photography. 1 The first permanent photograph was invented in 1839 1826 1845 1861 2 The oldest photographic method is the heliograph calotype tintype camera obscura 3 The first to copyright a photograph was Julia Margaret Cameron Louis Daguerre Henry Fox Talbott Matthew Brady 4 The word "photography" literally means light writing real imaging camera writing light pictures 5 Which of the following statements about the daguerreotype is true? It produced a negative. Working-class people could afford to sit for one. Anyone could produce one. It produced clear, easily recognizable imagery. Submit Quiz