Masters of Photography

The art of photography or photograph as art…

The video below is a sort of brief showcase showing great photos done by great photographers. Worth a view… Inspiring images.

Etymology

“According to the Oxford English Dictionary [Oxford University Press, 1st edition 1884-1928; 2nd edition 1989], the first recorded uses of photography, photograph, and photographic are by Herschel, in a paper that he read to the Royal Society on March 14, 1839. Photography seems to be an adaptation of German Photographie, itself already in use. The etymology of photography (or Photographie) is clear enough: from the Greek roots, phos, phot- ‘light’ and graphos ‘writing’. Literally, photography means ‘light recording’. The element -graph- occurs frequently in other technical terms and terms for technical processes which involve some notion of describing, recording, or reproduction, in words or images: hence geography, biography, cinematography (Greek kinema, kinemat- ‘movement’), and so on.”

source: http://www.source.ie/issues/issues2140/issue22/is22artlanpho.html