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What's the difference between a "photo" and a "photograph"?
by antientropic 5y ago
What's the difference between a "photo" and a "photograph"?
- sharken 5y ago> The word ‘photo’ comes from the Greek word for light. > A photo may also be referred to as a ‘photograph’, this is a combination of the Greek words for light and drawing; A photograph is a drawing made of light. Source https://shuttermuse.com/glossary/photo/ https://shuttermuse.com/glossary/photo/ According to Wikipedia the two words mean the same thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph Photo seems to be the more popular version lately which is hardly surprising: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=photo%2Cphotograph&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cphoto%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cphotograph%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=photo%2Cphotog...
- scrollaway 5y agoTrying to assume as much good faith in the original comment, GP may have been talking about the difference between the original photo and the resulting published jpeg file.