Definition of Photograph

Photograph

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

To practice photography; to take photographs.

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Photograph Quotations

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Galen Rowell

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
Galen Rowell

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
Matt Damon

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag

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Photograph Translations

photograph in Afrikaans is foto
photograph in Dutch is fotograferen, kieken
photograph in Finnish is valokuvata, valokuva
photograph in French is photographier, photo, phagocyter
photograph in German is Photograf, Fotografie, fotografieren
photograph in Italian is fagocitare, fotografare
photograph in Portuguese is fotografia
photograph in Swedish is fotografi, fotografera

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