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photographer

DEFINITIONS OF: photographer

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n someone who takes photographs professionally

Synonyms:
lensman
Examples:
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Mathew B. Brady
United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896)
Alfred Eisenstaedt
United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)
Dorothea Lange
United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965)
Edward Jean Steichen
United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)
Alfred Stieglitz
United States photographer (1864-1946)
William Henry Fox Talbot
English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
Edward Weston
United States photographer(1886-1958)
Types:
camera operator, cameraman, cinematographer
a photographer who operates a movie camera
paparazzo
a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
press photographer
a photographer who works for a newspaper
Type of:
artist, creative person
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
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