Photography
[fə'tɒgrəfɪ] or [fə'tɑɡrəfi]
Definition
(noun.) the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies.
(noun.) the act of taking and printing photographs.
(noun.) the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.
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Definition
(n.) The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
(n.) The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
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Definition
n. the art of producing pictures by the action of light on chemically prepared surfaces.—n. Phō′tograph a picture so produced.—v.t. to make a picture of by means of photography.—ns. Phōtog′rapher Phōtog′raphist.—adj. Phōtograph′ic -al.—adv. Phōtograph′ically.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you see photographs in your dreams, it is a sign of approaching deception. If you receive the photograph of your lover, you are warned that he is not giving you his undivided loyalty, while he tries to so impress you. For married people to dream of the possession of other persons' photographs, foretells unwelcome disclosures of one's conduct. To dream that you are having your own photograph made, foretells that you will unwarily cause yourself and others' trouble.
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Examples
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Scott Archer’s Collodion Process in Photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Blue printing was also invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842, and he was the first to apply the term negative in photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Photography and printing have combined to revolutionise the art of illustration. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To the microscope the art of photography has lent its valuable aid, so that all the revelations of the microscope are susceptible of preservation in permanent records, as photomicrographs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Never was such a fellow for photography. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Daguerre, without knowing that he, or indeed any other person, was pursuing, or had commenced or thought of, the art which we now call Photography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Emulsions and improvements in Dry Plate Photography by Russell and Sayce. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A more recent and quite important development of this art is photo-lithography, which will be more fully considered under photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Schulze discovered that chloride of silver was darkened by light and all unwittingly became the father of photography. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The art of photography, named from the two Greek words φωτο? γραφη (the writing of light), is a comparatively new one, and belongs entirely to the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Besides its use as an explosive, gun cotton when dissolved in ether has found an important application as collodion in the art of photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mungo Ponton applies Bichromate of Potash in Photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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