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a professional who waits hours in a bush to catch one perfect tenth of a second
means a person who takes photographs, whether for art, money, or memory.
from Stitched together from Greek roots: phos, phot- meaning 'light,' joined to graphos, 'to draw or write' — so literally a 'light-writer.' The word arrived in English in the 1830s and '40s, riding the wave of the new daguerreotype and calotype technologies, when capturing an image by light suddenly stopped being magic and became a trade.
- first photo
- 1826 exposure took over eight hours
- war risk
- deadliest non-military job in some conflict zones
- word origin
- Greek for drawing with light
- shutter speed
- can freeze a bullet mid-flight
- camera obscura
- the optical trick predates lenses by centuries
ansel adams — american landscape photographer (1902-1984) who pioneered the zone system and defined western wilderness photography
diane arbus — american photographer (1923-1971) known for haunting portraits of marginalized people and social outsiders
henri cartier-bresson — french photographer (1908-2004) who founded magnum photos and invented the concept of the decisive moment