photography

English

Etymology

From French photographie. Surface etymology is photo- +‎ -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φωτός (phōtós, “of light”, genitive), and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈtɒɡɹəfi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fəˈtɑɡɹəfi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
• Hyphenation: pho‧tog‧ra‧phy

Noun

photography (usually uncountable, plural photographies)

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

• aerial photography
• antiphotography
• astrophotography
• chromophotography
• chronophotography
• cinemaphotography
• cinephotography
• digital photography
• director of photography
• electrophotography
• flash photography
• glamour photography
• lithophotography
• macrophotography
• metaphotography
• microphotography
• orthophotography
• principal photography
• pyrophotography
• rephotography
• schlieren photography
• spectrophotography
• stereophotography
• telephotography
• tri-camera photography
• ultramicrophotography

 

Related terms

• phonography
• photographer
• photographic

 

Translations

art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces

• Afrikaans: fotografie (af)
• Albanian: fotografia ?
• Arabic: تَصْوِير‎ m (taṣwīr), فُوتُوغْرَافِيَّا‎ f (futuḡrafiyyā)
• Aragonese: fotografía f
• Armenian: լուսանկարչություն (hy) (lusankarčʿutʿyun)
• Asturian: fotografía (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: fotoqrafiya (az)
• Bambara: kɔtɛba
• Basque: argazkigintza
• Bavarian: Photographie ?
• Belarusian: фатагра́фія (fatahráfija)
• Bengali: ফটোগ্রাফি (phôṭographi), ফটোগ্রাফী (phôṭographī)
• Breton: luc'hskeudennerezh ?
• Bulgarian: фотогра́фия (bg) f (fotográfija)
• Catalan: fotografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝影 (zh), 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng)

• Chuvash: фотографи (fotografi)
• Corsican: fotugrafia f
• Czech: fotografie (cs) f
• Danish: fotografi (da) n
• Dutch: fotografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: fotarto
• Estonian: fotograafia
• Finnish: valokuvaus (fi), valokuvaaminen (fi)
• French: photographie (fr) f
• Friulian: fotografie ?
• Galician: fotografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ფოტოგრაფია (poṭograpia)
• German: Fotografie (de) f
• Greek: φωτογραφία (el) f (fotografía)
• Hebrew: צילום‎ m (tzilém)
• Hindi: छायाचित्र (hi) ? (chāyācitra), फ़ोटोग्राफ़ी f (foṭogrāfī), फोटोग्राफी (hi) m (phoṭogrāphī)
• Hungarian: fényképezés (hu)
• Icelandic: ljósmyndun f
• Ido: fotografado (io)
• Indonesian: fotografi (id)
• Interlingue: fotografie (ie)
• Irish: grianghrafadóireacht f, fótagrafaíocht f
• Italian: fotografia (it) f

• Japanese: 写真撮影 (shashin satsuei), 写真術 (shashinjutsu), 撮影 (ja) (さつえい, satsuei)
• Kazakh: фотография (kk) (fotografïya)
• Khmer: ឆាយាលេខន៍ (cʰaayaa leek), សិល្បៈថតរូប (səl tʰɑɑt ruup)
• Korean: 사진술 (ko) (sajinsul)
• Latin: photographia f
• Latvian: fotogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: fotografija f
• Luxembourgish: Fotografie f
• Macedonian: фотографија f (fotografija)
• Malay: fotografi
• Maltese: fotografija ?
• Maori: whakaahua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: fotografi m

• Pennsylvania German: Pikder ?
• Persian: عکاسی‎ (fa) (akkâsi)
• Polish: fotografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f
• Romanian: fotografie (ro) f
• Russian: фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)
• Samogitian: puortėgrapėjė f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фотогра̀фија f

  Roman: fotogràfija (sh) f

• Shor: соом (soom)
• Slovak: fotografia f, snímka f
• Spanish: fotografía (es) f
• Swedish: fotografi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palanginagan
• Tamil: புகைப்படம் (ta) (pukaippaṭam)
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap)
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: фотогра́фія f (fotohráfija)
• Vietnamese: nhiếp ảnh (vi)
• Volapük: fotograf (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogaf, (older term) litamag, (color) kölafotograf
• Walloon: fotografeye (wa) f
• Welsh: ffotograffiaeth (cy) f
• West Frisian: fotografy c, fotografie c

occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs

• Catalan: fotografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝影 (zh), 摄影 (zh) (shèyǐng)

• Czech: fotografování n
• Dutch: fotografie (nl) f
• Finnish: valokuvaus (fi), valokuvaaminen (fi)
• French: photographie (fr) f
• German: Fotografie (de) f
• Greek: φωτογραφική (el) f (fotografikí)
• Hungarian: fotózás (hu)
• Khmer: ថតរូប (tʰɑɑt ruup)

• Maltese: fotografu ?
• Portuguese: fotografia (pt) f
• Romanian: fotografia (ro) f
• Russian: фотогра́фия (ru) f (fotográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фотогра̀фија f

  Roman: fotogràfija (sh) f

• Spanish: fotografía (es) f
• Swedish: fotografering (sv) c
• Thai: การถ่ายภาพ (gaan-tàai-pâap)
• Turkish: fotoğrafçılık (tr)
• West Frisian: fotografy c, fotografie c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fotografia (it) f

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} fotografia f

Anagrams

• phagotrophy