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words for photos verbs the photographer types of photography types of camera
shot take/shoot a photograph amateur frontal pictures expensive / fancy
snap capture expressions/ atmosphere/ action shots professional fashion photography digital / analog
picture zoom in or out/ get in close/ fill the frame shutterbug animal photography Polaroid
photograph lens man class photos Brownie
stil a photographer's assistant (helpful to pick up trade tips) mug shots film camera
image still lifes
snapshot photo-journalism
portrait/ effigy sexually explicit polaroids
polaroids action shots
portraits
music photography
family shots
landscape
portraiture (can be contrived/ posed/ very natural)
lyfestyle photography
raportage images
electoral photography
a morphology/ a way of dressing/ a posture
photography is an ellipse of language
Pgina 1
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parts of cameras actions you can perform images are miscelaneous
flash you can muck it up in focus / not in focus red-eye
on/off button things may not go the way you hoped/ photographs may not turn out as well as you hoped blurred Picture editing programs (Photoshop, PaintShop Por, Picasa)
shutter button to select/ capture/ collect/ print/ manipulate photographs blurred Proverb: A picture is worth a thousand words
viewfinder bland Personification: Cameras get fooled
modes creative a major/ new exhibition/ show mounted at
basic/ advanced functions dodgy Nouns derived from verbs of looking: the gaze, a glimpse of, looker and looked-at
zoom once-in-a-lifetime shot sense of depth is transformed
archive/ photo-library/ sequence/ book/ portfolio/ inventory/antology/collection of images/ stills/ gazes
Photographs can be reduced/ blown up/ cropped/ retouched/ doctored/ tricked out/ bought and sold/ reproduced/ packaged/ stuck in albums/ framed/ set on tables/ tacked on walls/ projected as slides/ exhibited/ compiled/ arranged/ miniaturized/ easily torn/ printed/ put into general circulation/ cheap to produce/ easy to carry about/ accumulated/ stored/ enlarged/ shown/ composed
Photographs age/ disappear/ become valuable
artisanal Comparison: photography is like hunting; it's the instinct of the hunt without the desire to kill. One stalks, aims, shoots, and click! rather than killing someone you make them eternal
old to be or not to be in the picture
lightweight on the back of the picture
portraiture (can be contrived/ posed/ very natural) fragile the guy with his back to the camera
mighty the figure on the left
unforgettablethe people in this scene
mysterious in the past photos were developed in dark rooms using chemicals
magical
artistic
Photographs furnish evidence/ incriminate/ are a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their populations/ are an incontrovertible proof that something happened/ mirror reality
Photographs are: images of the truth/ a visual code/ a grammar of seeing/ an ethics of seeing/ a visual statement/ pieces of the world/ miniatures of reality/ experience captured/ the image of an image
To collect photographs is to collect the world
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed
photographs package the world and invite packaging
color/ black-and-white/ sepia
Moments plucked from time
the eternity of a still
the photograph makes someone eternal
a photo album
posed
stiff
a morphology/ a way of dressing/ a posture
photography is an ellipse of language
Pgina 2
Hoja1
Picture editing programs (Photoshop, PaintShop Por, Picasa)
Proverb: A picture is worth a thousand words
Nouns derived from verbs of looking: the gaze, a glimpse of, looker and looked-at
archive/ photo-library/ sequence/ book/ portfolio/ inventory/antology/collection of images/ stills/ gazes
Photographs can be reduced/ blown up/ cropped/ retouched/ doctored/ tricked out/ bought and sold/ reproduced/ packaged/ stuck in albums/ framed/ set on tables/ tacked on walls/ projected as slides/ exhibited/ compiled/ arranged/ miniaturized/ easily torn/ printed/ put into general circulation/ cheap to produce/ easy to carry about/ accumulated/ stored/ enlarged/ shown/ composed
Comparison: photography is like hunting; it's the instinct of the hunt without the desire to kill. One stalks, aims, shoots, and click! rather than killing someone you make them eternal
in the past photos were developed in dark rooms using chemicals
Photographs furnish evidence/ incriminate/ are a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their populations/ are an incontrovertible proof that something happened/ mirror reality
Photographs are: images of the truth/ a visual code/ a grammar of seeing/ an ethics of seeing/ a visual statement/ pieces of the world/ miniatures of reality/ experience captured/ the image of an image
Pgina 3
Hoja1
Photographs can be reduced/ blown up/ cropped/ retouched/ doctored/ tricked out/ bought and sold/ reproduced/ packaged/ stuck in albums/ framed/ set on tables/ tacked on walls/ projected as slides/ exhibited/ compiled/ arranged/ miniaturized/ easily torn/ printed/ put into general circulation/ cheap to produce/ easy to carry about/ accumulated/ stored/ enlarged/ shown/ composed
Comparison: photography is like hunting; it's the instinct of the hunt without the desire to kill. One stalks, aims, shoots, and click! rather than killing someone you make them eternal
Photographs furnish evidence/ incriminate/ are a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their populations/ are an incontrovertible proof that something happened/ mirror reality
Photographs are: images of the truth/ a visual code/ a grammar of seeing/ an ethics of seeing/ a visual statement/ pieces of the world/ miniatures of reality/ experience captured/ the image of an image
Pgina 4
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Photographs can be reduced/ blown up/ cropped/ retouched/ doctored/ tricked out/ bought and sold/ reproduced/ packaged/ stuck in albums/ framed/ set on tables/ tacked on walls/ projected as slides/ exhibited/ compiled/ arranged/ miniaturized/ easily torn/ printed/ put into general circulation/ cheap to produce/ easy to carry about/ accumulated/ stored/ enlarged/ shown/ composed
Pgina 5
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Photographs can be reduced/ blown up/ cropped/ retouched/ doctored/ tricked out/ bought and sold/ reproduced/ packaged/ stuck in albums/ framed/ set on tables/ tacked on walls/ projected as slides/ exhibited/ compiled/ arranged/ miniaturized/ easily torn/ printed/ put into general circulation/ cheap to produce/ easy to carry about/ accumulated/ stored/ enlarged/ shown/ composed
Pgina 6