WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY

							                WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY?
•   Photography is picture language. Unlike the spoken or written word, it is a form of
    communication that can be internationally understood.

•   The word photography comes from the Greek words "Photos" meaning Light, and
    "Graphos" meaning Writing. Together photography means "writing with light".

•   The word Camera comes from the Greek word "Kamera" meaning a "room or box".
    A photographic camera being a light-tight box with a light sensitive film at one end and
    a lens or pin-hole to admit the light image at the other end.




THE PURPOSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
•   The essential purpose of photography is communication.            Pictures are the
    photographer’s means of expression as a writer’s means are words.




FIELDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Each field of photography has a specific purpose.
• Information             Purpose - to educate people
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•   Slanted Information    Purpose - the selling of a product, a service or an idea.
                           Examples -

•   Discovery              Purpose - to explore and gaining knowledge.
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•   Recording              Purpose - to record and preserves knowledge and facts.
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•   Entertainment          Purpose - to entertain people
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