Photographer

Photographer

A photographer (from Greek φωτός (photos), meaning "light", and γράφω (graphos), meaning "written") is a person who takes photographs. A professional photographer uses photography to earn money; amateur photographers take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, or person.

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Famous quotes containing the word photographer:

    “The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
    —Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984)