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photography

art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation
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Summary

photography is an artistic technique[1]. photography ranks in the top 3% of artistic technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (27,563 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Thomas Wedgwood[3]
  • Instance of: academic discipline[4], type of arts[5], hobby[6], industry[7]
  • Subclass of: activity[8]
  • Part of: lens-based visual arts[9]
  • Has use: economic profit[10], pleasure[11], information exchange[12]
  • Commons category: Photography[13]
  • Country of origin: England[14]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1800[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Photography[16]
  • Commons gallery: Photography[17]
  • Product or material produced: photograph[18]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Photography[19]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[23], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24]
  • Topic has template: Template:Photography[25]
  • Equivalent class: http://id.cabi.org/cabt/89400[26], http://skos.um.es/unesco6/220917[27]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C94527[28]
  • Different from: Fotografik[29], photograph[30], photographic work[31], photographism[32]
  • History of topic: history of photography[33]
  • Hashtag: photography[34], 写真好きな人と繋がりたい[35], photooftheday[36]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[37]
  • Exact match: http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectcode/01013000[38]
  • Practiced by: photographer[39]

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Influence

Things named for photography include 443 Photographica[40], an asteroid[41] and .photography[42], a generic top-level domain[43], founded in 2013[44].

Why It Matters

photography has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] photography is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]

Entities named for photography include 443 Photographica[40], an asteroid[41] and .photography[42], a generic top-level domain[43], founded in 2013[44].

Related Entities

Abbas Kiarostami Adam Chin Agnès Varda Albatross - Photography publishing productions Alberto Lattuada Alexander Rodchenko Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred Stieglitz Andrej Tichý André Kertész Annemarie Schwarzenbach Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Anselm Kiefer Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Antti Leikas Bae Doona Berenice Abbott Branislav Nušić Carlos Saura Cecil Beaton Charles J. Byrne Cindy Sherman Claude Cahun David Hockney Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg Diane Arbus Digital Camera World Dorothea Lange

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . National Agricultural Library Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Unified Medical Language System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . japanbuzz.info. japanbuzz.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Photography
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Photography, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 12Ubmv
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0005311-fotografovani', '0294092-fotografie']
    Harper's tag → photography
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: photography, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950006|photography (#289950006)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  4. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0005311-fotografovani', '0294092-fotografie']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005311-fotografovani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Mastodon instance url → https://photog.social
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 1979, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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