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photograph Definition

photo·graph (fōt′ə graf′)

noun

an image or picture made by photography

Etymology: photo- + -graph

transitive verb

  1. to take a photograph of
  2. to film ()

intransitive verb

  1. to take photographs
  2. to appear (as specified) in photographs to photograph well

photograph Synonyms

photograph

n.

photo, print, portrait, image, likeness, Kodachrome (trademark), snapshot, Kodak (trademark), photogram, microcopy, microfilm, bibliofilm, tactical photograph, photomicrogram, photomicrograph, radiograph, photomontage, photomural, snap*, shot*, pic*, close-up*, candid photo*; see also picture 2, 3.

photograph Synonyms

photograph

v.

take a picture, get a likeness, film, copy, reproduce, illustrate, make an exposure, make a picture, catch a likeness, get a film, make a moving picture of, microfilm, photogram, snap*, shoot*, get a close-up*; see also record 3.

photograph Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • accompany: The fee for a replacement badge is £ 2.50 and will require to be accompanied by two passport photographs.
  • illustrate: Each species is illustrated by a photograph and, to aid identification, accompanied by a line drawing that emphasizes its critical features.

Converse of object

  • take: Don't forget to have your photographs taken in good time for the 2007 number!
  • reproduce: Cyan | Magenta | Yellow | Black CMYK printing can reproduce most color photographs very well.
  • digitize: This contains 143 metadata records for digitized photographs from the Springburn Community Museum, part of the Glasgow Digital Library.
  • contain: Contains 3 photographs of working boats adapted for camping.

Adjective modifier

  • aerial: It also offers aerial photographs of any location in Britain.
  • white: In a corner Grant's Daisy #6, a small black and white photograph, is a quiet yet dark presence.
  • passport-sized: Each application form must be accompanied by two passport-sized photographs.
  • stunning: Our friendly photographers produce stunning photographs that you will cherish for many years.
  • digital: Edition of 200 Buenos Aires: This artist's book holds the whole series of 22 digital photographs under the same name.
  • black-and-white: He creates a fascinating dialog between his raw, colorful, textured abstract paintings and his elegant black-and-white female nude photographs.

Modifies a noun

  • courtesy: Photograph courtesy of Pat Salmon The School, Mole Hill Green This scene of Mole Hill Green School dates from around 1930.
  • album: I looked through old photograph albums, read letters from years back and kept re-reading that diary.

Noun used with modifier

  • passport: You will also need to provide a new passport style photograph.
  • color: Entrants should submit a color photograph or slide of the original artwork, not original artworks.
  • step-by-step: Step-by-step photographs and details of the design to follow as you work.
  • close-up: Shutter control Most, if not all, close-up photographs are taken with the use of flash.
  • portrait: Mario Testino's images taken for Vanity Fair magazine turned out to be the last official portrait photographs of Diana, Princess of Wales.
  • wedding: We can offer the traditional style of Wedding Photographs where you will have a number of posed groups for your album.
photograph Quotes

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤  poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

—Hollinghurst, Alan

(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned. I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.)

—Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirsö or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife† Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!

—Rodchenko, Alexander

It's easier to get a photograph of the Pope in the shower than a picture of her.

—Anonymous

When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants' lavatory; it was her one combative action.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

I said,'Forgive me, sir,'and plucked the cigar out of his mouth. By the time I got back to my camera, he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant that I took the photograph. The silence was deafening.

—Karsh,Yousuf