Photography Definition
fə-tŏgrə-fē
noun
The art or process of capturing images, either on light-sensitive film or electronically in digital form, from which viewable pictures can be produced; activity of someone who uses a camera.
Webster's New World
The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
American Heritage
A body of photographs.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- photomacrography
- holography
- electrophotography
- chronophotography
- stereophotography
- picture taking
- phonophotography
- telephotography
- candid camera photography
- photogrammetry
- tactical photography
- aerial-photography
- view photography
- portrait photography
- snapshooting
Origin of Photography
From photo- +"Ž -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός (photos, “(genitive) of light"), and γράφω (graphō, “I write").
From Wiktionary
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