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Photography vs Rephotography - What's the difference?

photography | rephotography |

As nouns the difference between photography and rephotography

is that photography is the art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart while rephotography is a form of photography in which the same site is photographed at two separate points in time, "then and now".

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

    rephotography

    English

    (wikipedia rephotography)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A form of photography in which the same site is photographed at two separate points in time, "then and now".
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    • , passage=A reinventor of rephotography , Mr. Prince has cannily parlayed his jaundiced view of society, especially its macho subcultures, into an array of market-friendly paintings and sculpture. }}

    Related terms

    * rephotograph * rephotographer