photography

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Etymology

From photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός (photos, “(genitive) of light”), and γράφω (graphō, “I write”).

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Noun

photography (uncountable)

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

• astrophotography
• digital photography
• flash photography
• glamour photography
• telephotography

Related terms

• photographer
• photographic
• phonography

Translations

art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces

Albanian: fotografia (sq) Arabic: تصوير (ar) (taSwiir) m., فوتوغرافيا (ar) (futughrafíyya) f. Aragonese: fotografía (an) Asturian: fotografía (ast) Azeri: fotoqrafiya (az) Bambara: kɔtɛba (bm) Basque: argazkigintza (eu) Bavarian: Photographie Belarusian: фатаграфія (be) (fatahráfija) Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফি (bn) (fôţografi), ফটোগ্রাফী (bn) (fôţografi) Bosnian: fotografija (bs) Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh (br) Bulgarian: фотография (bg) (fotográfija) f. Catalan: fotografia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 攝影 (zh), 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng) Chuvash: фотографи (fotografi) Corsican: fotugrafia (co) Croatian: fotografija (hr) f. Czech: fotografie (cs) Danish: fotografi (da) Dutch: fotografie (nl) f. Esperanto: fotarto (eo) Estonian: fotograafia (et) Finnish: valokuvaus, valokuvaaminen French: photographie (fr) f. Friulian: fotografie Galician: fotografía (gl) German: Fotografie (de) f.

Greek: φωτογραφία (el) f. (fotografía) Hebrew: צילום (he) (tzilém) Hindi: छायाचित्र (hi) (chāyācitr), फ़ोटोग्राफ़ी (hi) (foṭogrāfī) f. Hungarian: fényképezés (hu) Italian: fotografia (it) f. Japanese: 写真撮影 (ja) (shashin satsuei), 写真術 (ja) (shashinjutsu), 撮影 (ja) (さつえい, satsuei) Korean: 사진술 (ko) (sajinsul) Latin: photographia (la) f. Latvian: fotogrāfija (lv) Lithuanian: fotografija (lt) f. Maltese: fotografija (mt) Norwegian: fotografi (no) Pennsylvania German: Pikder Persian: عکاسی (fa) (akkâsi) Polish: fotografia (pl) f. Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f. Romanian: fotografie (ro) f. Russian: фотография (ru) (fotográfija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фотографија (sh) f. Roman: fotografija (sh) f. Spanish: fotografía (es) f. Ukrainian: фотографія (uk) (fotohráfija) f. Volapük: fotograf (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogaf (vo), (older term) litamag (vo), (color) kölafotograf (vo) Walloon: fotografeye (wa) f. Welsh: ffotograffiaeth (cy) West Frisian: fotografy (fy) c., fotografie (fy) c.

occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs

Catalan: fotografia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 攝影 (zh), 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng) Croatian: fotografija (hr) f. Dutch: fotografie (nl) f. Finnish: valokuvaus, valokuvaaminen French: photographie (fr) f. German: Fotografie (de) f.

Greek: φωτογραφική (el) f. (fotografikí) Maltese: fotografu (mt) Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f. Romanian: fotografia (ro) f. Russian: фотография (ru) (fotográfija) f. Spanish: fotografía (es) f. West Frisian: fotografy (fy) c., fotografie (fy) c.

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Italian: fotografia f.

Slovak: fotografia f.