Photography

Noun

 * 1) The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
 * 2) The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

Derived terms

 * digital photography
 * flash photography
 * glamour photography

Related terms

 * photographer
 * photographic
 * phonography

Adjectives for Photography
professional; instantaneous; distinguished.

Verbs for Photography
apply—; dabble in—; practise—; study—; utilize in—; —advances; —aids; —attracts; —awes; —captures; —impresses; —improves; —prints; —progresses.

Thesaurus
X-ray photography, abstract art, aerial photography, aerophotography, albertype, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, astrophotography, book printing, calligraphy, candid photography, cave art, ceramics, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, chronophotography, cinematography, collotype, color photography, color printing, decoration, design, designing, drawing, electron optics, electronography, electrophotography, electrostatic printing, engraving, etching, fine arts, folk art, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, holography, infrared photography, infrared spectroscopy, integral photography, job printing, laser photography, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, microphotography, microscopics, microscopy, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, optical physics, optics, optometry, painting, palaeotypography, phonophotography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photoheliography, photolithography, photomacrography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, plastic art, primitive art, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, pyrophotography, radiography, relief printing, relief-carving, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sculpture, sheetwork, spectroheliography, spectrometry, spectrophotography, spectrophotometry, spectroscopy, stencil, stereophotography, stereoscopy, telephotography, telescopy, the arts, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, uranophotography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

Etymology
From, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός:, and γράφω:.

Translations

 * Albanian: fotografia
 * Arabic: (futugrafíyya)
 * Aragonese: fotografía
 * Asturian: fotografía
 * Azeri: fotoqrafiya
 * Bambara: kɔtɛba
 * Basque: argazkigintza
 * Bavarian:
 * Belarusian: фатаграфія
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bosnian: fotografija
 * Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh
 * Catalan: fotografia
 * Chinese: 攝影, 摄影 (shèyǐng)
 * Chuvash:
 * Corsican: fotugrafia
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: fotografie
 * Danish: fotografi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fotarto
 * Estonian: fotograafia
 * Finnish: valokuvaus, valokuvaaminen
 * French:


 * Friulian:
 * Galician: fotografía
 * German:
 * Greek: (fotografía)
 * Hebrew: צילום
 * Hindi: छायाचित्र
 * Hungarian: fényképezés
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 写真撮影 (shashin satsuei), 写真術 (shashinjutsu),
 * Korean: 사진술
 * Latin: photographia
 * Latvian: fotogrāfija
 * Lithuanian: fotografija
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian: fotografi
 * Pennsylvania German:
 * Persian: عکاسی
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: fotograf, fotogaf,  litamag
 * Welsh: ffotograffiaeth
 * West Frisian: fotografy,


 * Catalan: fotografia
 * Chinese: 攝影, 摄影 (shèyǐng)
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: valokuvaus, valokuvaaminen
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: φωτογραφική (fotografikí)
 * Maltese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * West Frisian: fotografy,


 * : fotografia


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