单词 | photography |
释义 | photographyn. The process, practice, or art of taking photographs; the business of producing and printing photographs.action-, motion, portrait, streak, trick photography: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] photogeny1839 photography1839 heliography1840 actinography1853 electrology1896 photo work1897 imagery work1977 1839 A. Fyfe in Proc. Scot. Soc. Arts 27 Mar. 419 Paper smeared with the solution [of lunar caustic] is darkened... Hence the process of photogenic drawing [as published in May, in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 27 145, altered to Hence the art of Photography].] 1839 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 27 156 (heading) Notes on Daguerre's photography. By Sir John Robison. 1840 J. F. W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 2 The application of photography to the copying of drawings and engravings, and to the fixation of optical images. 1841 W. H. F. Talbot Brit. Patent 8842 7 For the purposes of economy in the processes of photography. 1843 J. F. W. Herschel in Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 4 131 (title) Note on the art of photography, or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation. 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. i. i. §13 Light..which works those chemical changes utilized in Photography. 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xxxiii. 395 Within the last few years solar photography has made a progress which is very promising. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 12/3 Many of the pictures..are excellent examples of artistic photography. 1937 Discovery Oct. 306/1 In recent years aerial photography has played an important part in revealing the location of abandoned cities. 1988 Creative Rev. Jan. 3/3 David Hockney broke the rules of photography and art with his photo-collages. 1995 Hearing Res. 86 163 Digital photography is the rapidly developing field of computer processing of images generated either directly from a digital camera or from scanned conventional film. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 11/3 War photography has generally traded under the name of photojournalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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