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Printmaking vs Photography - What's the difference?

printmaking | photography |

As nouns the difference between printmaking and photography

is that printmaking is the field of art concerned, roughly, with the transferal of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper while photography is the art and technology of producing on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.

printmaking

English

Noun

(-)
  • The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transferal of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.

    • See also

    * aquatint * collagraphy * intaglio * linocut * lithography * monoprint * serigraphy * viscosity printing * woodcut * xylography

    photography

    English

    (wikipedia photography)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
  • The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

    • Derived terms

    * astrophotography * digital photography * flash photography * glamour photography * telephotography

    Related terms

    * photographer * photographic * phonography