PHOTOGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographer mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who takes photographs professionally

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes photographs professionally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lensman; photographer

Hypernyms ("photographer" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photographer"):

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)

Instance hyponyms:

Brady; 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; Eisenstaedt (United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898))

Dorothea Lange; Lange (United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965))

Edward Jean Steichen; Steichen (United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973))

Alfred Stieglitz; Stieglitz (United States photographer (1864-1946))

Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot (English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877))

Edward Weston; Weston (United States photographer(1886-1958))

Derivation:

photograph (record on photographic film)

photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)

photography (the act of taking and printing photographs)

 Context examples 

"I've a staff photographer outside, you see, and he says it will be better to take you right away before the sun gets lower. Then we can have the interview afterward."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Before I had a website, I was an agent for commercial photographers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If the overage was not exorbitant, the photographer would opt to cover it—and later win awards for the work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He announced that his wife had inspired the poem, saw to it that the news reached the ears of a reporter, and submitted to an interview by a staff writer who was accompanied by a staff photographer and a staff artist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The upside of the Sun conjunct Neptune is that if you work in the arts—perhaps as an actor, artist, photographer, musician, director of an art gallery or curator of a museum, or any of the many other jobs that deal in the creative or cultural arts—you may conclude an agreement for a large sale within four days of this full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"A photographer," Brissenden said meditatively.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This full moon of February 8-9 is in Leo, a sign that rules the arts and entertainment, including actors and musicians, artists, costume and set designers, poets, photographers, filmmakers, screenwriters—even lawyers who specialize in intellectual property for the entertainment industry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All that he was and was not, all that he had done and most of what he had not done, was spread out for the delectation of the public, accompanied by snapshots and photographs—the latter procured from the local photographer who had once taken Martin's picture and who promptly copyrighted it and put it on the market.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's front door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was sure he'd start when he saw the newspapers, just as I was sure there'd be a wire from Daisy before noon—but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived, no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)