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A photographer<\/b> (the Greek \u03c6\u1ff6\u03c2 (phos<\/i>), meaning “light”, and \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae (graph\u00ea<\/i>), meaning “drawing, writing”, together meaning “drawing with light”)[1]<\/a><\/sup> is a person who makes photographs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Photographers are also categorized based on the subjects they photograph.<\/span><\/p>\n Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape<\/a>, still life<\/a>, and portraiture<\/a>. Other photographers specialize in subjects unique to photography, including street photography<\/a>, documentary photography<\/a>, fashion photography<\/a>, wedding photography<\/a>, war photography<\/a>, photojournalism<\/a>, aviation photography<\/a> and commercial photography.<\/span><\/p>\n As in other arts, the definitions of amateur<\/a> and professional<\/a> are not entirely categorical. A professional photographer<\/i> is likely to take photographs<\/a> to make money, by salary or through the display, sale or use of those photographs. An amateur<\/a> photographer may take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, as a person without a monetary motivation.<\/span><\/p>\n With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Graeco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting<\/a> by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. A still-life form gives the artist more freedom in the arrangement of elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape<\/a> or portraiture<\/a>.<\/p>\n Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish painting<\/a> of the 16th and 17th centuries. Early still-life paintings<\/a>, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still-life work breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics<\/a>, as well as video and sound.<\/p>\n The term includes the painting of dead animals, especially game. Live ones are considered animal art<\/a>, although in practice they were often painted from dead models. The still-life category also shares commonalities with zoological and especially botanical illustration<\/a>, where there has been considerable overlap among artists.<\/p>\n Generally a still life includes a fully depicted background, and puts aesthetic rather than illustrative concerns as primary.<\/p>\n Still life occupied the lowest rung of the hierarchy of genres<\/a>, but has been extremely popular with buyers. As well as the independent still-life subject, still-life painting encompasses other types of painting with prominent still-life elements, usually symbolic, and “images that rely on a multitude of still-life elements ostensibly to reproduce a ‘slice of life’.<\/p>\n The trompe-l’\u0153il<\/a> painting, which intends to deceive the viewer into thinking the scene is real, is a specialized type of still life, usually showing inanimate and relatively flat objects.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A photographer (the Greek \u03c6\u1ff6\u03c2 (phos), meaning “light”, and \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae (graph\u00ea), meaning “drawing, writing”, together meaning “drawing with light”)[1] is a person who makes photographs. Photographers are also categorized based on the subjects they photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Other photographers specialize in subjects unique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P90w4u-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\u00a0A still life<\/b> (plural: still lifes<\/b>) is a work of art<\/a> depicting mostly inanimate<\/a> subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n