Definition of Photography

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Definition of Photography
	Photography The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light. Related Definitions: Action, And, Art, Bodies, By, Fixation, In, Like, Light, Of, On, Or, Process, Producing, Production, Science, Sensitive, The, This, To, Which

Photography Quotations

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Berenice Abbott

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott

Photography Translations

photography in Dutch is fotografie
photography in French is photographie
photography in German is Photo, Fotografie
photography in Portuguese is fotografia
photography in Swedish is fotografi

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