Fun Trivia : Photography

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In one of the most unforgettable photographs of the 20th Century, a young girl was seen running naked down a road her face contorted with pain. In which war was the picture taken?

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Vietnam. That girl was Phan Thi Kim Phuc and she was aged nine when she was horribly injured by napalm in 1972 during the Vietnam War. The image, taken by Huynh Cong Ut, was voted "Picture of the Year" by the World Press Photo Holland Foundation.



The conspiracy theorists say they were fakes, for the rest of us they were literally out of this world. What make of camera was used to take photographs when man first set foot on the moon in 1969?

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Hasselblad. Neil Armstrong used a Hasselblad Data Camera that had been designed to meet NASA standards. The astronauts had to be able to use the cameras through their protective gloves. The Carl Zeiss company made a special lens and Kodak developed thinner films. Between 1969 and 1972, 12 of these cameras were left on the surface of the moon. So if you fancy picking up a camera of outstanding quality for nothing, you know where to go.



Cameras at the movies: Which Hitchcock film masterpiece featured a photographer who used his camera to look into the lives of his neighbours, then began to suspect a woman had been murdered?

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Rear Window. Made in 1954, James Stewart played a photographer who had nothing better to do than the to watch his neighborhood through his camera while recovering from a broken leg. Among those he saw were an attractive couple who lived nearby, then one day she could no longer been seen, and he was convinced the husband had murdered her.



Silenced: The truth about one of the most famous murders of the 20th Century may never be known because the chief suspect was shot dead at point-blank range by a lone gunman before he could testify. A photograph of that act became one of the most famous images of the century. Where was it taken?

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Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, was shot dead at close range by Jack Ruby while in police custody in Dallas Texas on November 24 1963; Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3 1968; Anwar Sadat was shot dead in Cairo by a group of conspirators in October 1981; while Pope John Paul II survived a shooting in St Peter's Square, Rome on May 13 1981. Remarkably, those said to be engaged in the murders (and in the Pope's case attempted murder) were arrested. The picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald was taken by Associated Press photographer Bob Jackson.



Marie Helvin was one of the most glamorous models of her, or any other, age. She was captured on film in a book called "Trouble And Strife" by her then photographer husband. Who was he?

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David Bailey. Trouble and strife was Cockney rhyming slang for "wife". Born in London in 1938, David Bailey came from a working class background, his father was a tailor's cutter and his mother a machinist. She brought up the family when her husband left. National Service was to be the making of Bailey. While serving in the Far East, he bought a camera, and after his discharge, undertook several assistant photographer positions, before earning his own staff job at Vogue in 1960. He was to become one of the most famous photographers of the 1960s. Marie Helvin was born in Tokyo in 1952 of American and Japanese parents. She married Bailey in 1973, but they were divorced 10 years later. "Trouble And Strife", a book of nude photographs of Helvin, was published in 1980.



Almost from the time they first came about, cameras have been used for military purposes. In 1905, the US Army experimented with aerial photographs. What kind of aircraft was used?

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Kite. In 1905, the 'New York Times' reported that on April 21, a board of army officers went to the Indian Head proving grounds to carry out tests of a camera suspended below a kite and operated from the ground. Three exposures were captured at heights of up to 400 feet. The 'Times' noted: "The idea is to use the camera for photographing an enemy's troops and defenses in actual warfare." Indian Head proving grounds were established in Charles County, Maryland, in 1890 and remained in use into the 21st Century.