photographer

Noun

Meaning

One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lensman shutterbug photojournalist paparazzo photographist camera operator press photographer photog press artist author journalist assistant reporter snapper
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Antonyms

lion acrobat dyer eminence engineer painter
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Hypernyms

artist occupation creative person

Hyponyms

cinematographer cameraman paparazzo camera operator press photographer

Phrases with the word

amateur photographer professional photographer celebrity photographer freelance photographer photographer's establishment motion-picture photographer

Anagrams

rephotograph

Examples

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Ansel Adams

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. Aubrey Beardsley

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. Walker Evans

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag

Close letter words and terms

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