Pictures of People Taking Pictures Quiz

Answer: Snowdon

The corgis belong to Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, who first kept the Welsh dogs as a teenager. Her sister, Princess Margaret, was married to Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon from 1960 until their divorce in 1978. The Earldom was created for him upon his marriage and is named for the highest peak in Wales, Armstrong-Jones ancestral home.

Professionally, Armstrong-Jones is simply known as Snowdon. His career has seen him work in fashion photography and photo-journalism but he is most noted for his portraiture, not least of members of the royal family.

Answer: Lee Miller

Elizabeth Lee Miller's first exposure to photography came from her father, Theodore, a keen amateur who frequently used his daughter as a model. She became a professional model after a chance encounter with magazine publisher Condé Nast, who saved her from being run over in New York.

Miller moved to Paris in the late 1920s with the intention of working with Man Ray, a leading name in the Surrealist movement. Though initially reluctant, Ray took her on as his assistant and she was soon running his fashion photography studio. At this time, the two developed the technique of solarisation, where the dark and light tones developed from a photographic negative are reversed. During her time in Paris she also appeared in Jean Cocteau's 1930 film, "The Blood of a Poet" in which she played a living statue.

After leaving Ray in the 1930s, Miller withdrew from the professional side of photography and twice married. Now living in the UK, Miller returned to the profession as a photojournalist with the outbreak of World War II in Europe. She became war correspondent for "Vogue" and published numerous pieces in "Life" magazine. One of the most famous photographs of this period was of, not by, Miller. It showed her reclining in Hitler's bathtub in Munich following the end of the war.

Answer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll

The hat, of course, belongs to the Hatter from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", the 1865 novel for which Dodgson, as Lewis Carroll, is best known. Dodgson was an early adopter of the new technology of photography in the mid-1850s and his expertise in it soon gained him a positive reputation. Among the subjects of his remaining portraits (approximately two-thirds of his total collection is lost), was a young girl by the name of Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, with whom Dogdson had struck up a friendship. The story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" originated in a request from Alice to write down the tales that Dodgson made up to entertain her and her sisters.

"The Hunting of the Snark" was a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that told a story of a expedition to find an unknown and undiscoverable being.

Answer: Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre was one of the pioneers of photography with his development, in 1838, of the daguerrotype. The initial daguerrotype process worked by exposing light onto the silver-foiled surface of a copper plate, after the surface had been treated with iodine vapour.

A positive image was then created by developing the plate with mercury. The light exposure required by the early version of this process was approximately ten minutes for a single image, so a picture taken by this method would only display non-moving objects, hence the bored look on Daguerre's face.

Answer: Cecil Beaton

A member of the international best dressed hall of fame, Cecil Beaton achieved great success in multiple fields. He was taken on by "Vogue" magazine early in his photographic career and his photos of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s earned him attention. He became a sought after fashion photographer and portraitist, shooting such luminaries as Winston Churchill and the British royal family.

Despite being best known for shooting the rich and famous, Beaton also created some memorable images of the British public during World War II, in his role as an official photographer for the Ministry of War. One particularly striking image was of a three-year old victim of a German bomb, as she lay in her hospital bed with her head heavily bandaged, clutching her beloved but battered teddy bear. The image went right around the world and spread the word about the suffering that the British public was enduring. It was particularly aimed at mobilising public feeling in the United States, who were not involved in the war at that time.

After the war, he turned his attention to stage design and soon was recruited by the film industry to do the same for them. He won two Academy Awards for set design, for the musicals "Gigi" in 1959 and "My Fair Lady" six years later.

Answer: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier-Bresson is known in some quarters as the father of modern photojournalism. His style was informed by his fraternisation with the Surrealists when he was trying to eke a living as a painter. Their view that the mechanisms of thought could be more clearly revealed by capturing unrehearsed moments in time, led Cartier-Bresson to approach photography with the idea of capturing "The Decisive Moment", a phrase that was used for the title of his 1952 collection of photographs. In order to prevent his subjects posing and obfuscating the truth of the moment, Cartier-Bresson would paint all the metal parts of his camera black, so that it could remain unnoticed.

In 1947, Cartier-Bresson was one of the co-founders of the co-operative picture agency, Magnum Photos. Magnum's intention was to transcribe events from around the world in photographs. Cartier-Bresson's part was to cover central and eastern Asia. The co-operative has built up a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of pictures from all parts of the world and its roster of photographers has grown to include members from dozens of countries covering all the world's continents.

Answer: Linda McCartney

Though she was born Linda Eastman in 1941 and despite her career as a photographer, Linda McCartney was no relation to George Eastman, the founder of photographic giant, Eastman Kodak. She gained fame as a photographer through her portraits of famous rock stars of the 1960s. However, it was through marrying one such star, The Beatles' Paul McCartney, that she gained her greatest fame. After The Beatles split, Paul formed the band Wings and Linda became its keyboard player, despite having no background in music.

She gained fame in a third field with the release of her vegetarian cookbook in 1989, which was soon followed by a range of vegetarian ready meals, a business that her husband continued after her death.

Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Though his greatest fame now lies with his career as a filmmaker, Kubrick started out as a photographer for "Look" magazine as a teenager. In his early twenties, he began his first forays into film with a series of documentaries. His skill with lighting, learned from photography, made him perfectly suited to film-making and when he moved into feature films with "The Killing" (1956) and "Paths of Glory" (1957), his cinematography became widely admired and hugely influential.

Kubrick was also a great writer and a lover of literature. Many of his films were adaptations of literary classics, such as "Lolita" by Nabokov in 1962, Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" in 1971 and Thackeray's "Barry Lyndon" in 1975. He also turned his hand effectively to the horror novel with his 1980 film of Stephen King's "The Shining" being held up by Martin Scorsese as "like no horror film ever made... essentially unclassifiable, endlessly provocative and profoundly disturbing."

Answer: Spencer Tunick

Tunick is famed for photographing nudes in public places, particularly those that involve large numbers of subjects, forming what has been described as "living sculpture". The first of these was a collection of 28 men and women posing naked in front of the United Nations in New York. Since then he has photographed scenes in many locations around the world including Selfridges in London, a vineyard in Macon, France and outside the State Opera House in Munich.

Some of these installations have featured over 1000 nude models.

Answer: Annie Leibovitz

The boulders refer to Leibovitz's working relationships both with "Rolling Stone" magazine, for whom she took photos for more than two decades, and with The Rolling Stones, for whom she was the official photographer on one of their 1970s tours of the United States.

Leibovitz's work with Rolling Stone saw her photograph many of the legends of popular music in the 1970s and 1980s including a famous portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken just days before Lennon's murder in 1980. Leibovitz also took a number of controversial photos in her time, not least of a partially unclad 15-year-old Miley Cyrus and a totally unclad and pregnant Demi Moore for the cover of "Vanity Fair" in 1991.