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PHOTOGRAPHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who takes photographs professionally
Synonyms:
lensman; photographer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("photographer" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photographer"):
camera operator; cameraman; cinematographer (a photographer who operates a movie camera)
paparazzo (a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines)
press photographer (a photographer who works for a newspaper)
Instance hyponyms:
Brady; Mathew B. Brady (United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896))
Alfred Eisenstaedt; Eisenstaedt (United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898))
Dorothea Lange; Lange (United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965))
Edward Jean Steichen; Steichen (United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973))
Alfred Stieglitz; Stieglitz (United States photographer (1864-1946))
Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot (English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877))
Edward Weston; Weston (United States photographer(1886-1958))
Derivation:
photograph (record on photographic film)
photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)
photography (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Context examples:
He informed me that he was in the "artistic game" and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
