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Photography is the art and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically or chemically. It serves various functions, including communication, documentation, and artistic expression, and is prevalent in modern life through various mediums. Despite its widespread use, only a small fraction of photographs are considered art and displayed in galleries.

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Photography is the art and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically or chemically. It serves various functions, including communication, documentation, and artistic expression, and is prevalent in modern life through various mediums. Despite its widespread use, only a small fraction of photographs are considered art and displayed in galleries.

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MEANING OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or
other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or
chemically by means of light sensitive material such as photographic film

The word PHOTOGRAPHY literally means ‘drawing with light’, which derives from the Greek
photo, meaning light and graph, meaning to draw. Photography is the process of recording an
image – a photograph – on light sensitive film or, in the case of digital photography, via a digital
electronic or magnetic memory.

The photograph is evident in nearly every aspect of modern life. As a form of communication
and documentation, photographs are present in newspapers, magazines, advertisements,
posters, television, the Internet, passports, ID cards, archives, security and SURVEILLANCE
SYSTEMS, forensics and medicine. Photography also plays an important role in domestic and
recreational activities. Most photographs produced today take the form of SNAPSHOTS
documenting activities such as holidays and celebrations. With the prevalence of digital
cameras and mobile phone cameras, these activities are also documented for display on photo-
sharing websites and photo-based SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES. Despite the prevalence of
photography in many aspects of modern life, only a small minority of photographs are
considered to be art and tend to be displayed in museums and galleries in formats similar to
painting.

Functions and important of photography


1. Photographs are used to communicate and pass information
2. Photography helps save and prevent moment from running away forever
3. Photography gives us an idea of how the past looks like and how the future is going to
be
4. Photography aids and helps advertisement of products for business organization
5. Photography evokes nostalgia, which means they can be used as record or chronicles of
our lives, where we have been ,what we have done and who we are.
6. Photography tells stories we don’t want to speak with our mouth.
7. Photography helps us tell beautiful and colorful stories of all kinds of event like wedding
parties, birthday parties, family get-together even church events like anniversary
8. Photography helps us express ourselves through an art which means we might notice a
beautiful landscape or nature, or any intestine scene around us and we might want to
capture it, each of us will definitely have reasons for capturing such images
9. Photography or capturing images can express joy, sorrow, wonder and sympathy
because every human emotions finds a place in photography

10. Photography gives us the exact image of how nature, buildings, humans, animals are.

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