Image vs Photograph

<p>You are totally right Sanford. If it is a question today it might be because the diversity of "imaging" technics and approaches, has increase drastically the last years.</p>

<p>The terms are synonymous.</p>

<p>Dan,<br /> Usage has made them the same today. For me, one has more authority, artistic merit or, whatever criteria. That places photography above <em>mere</em> image. Images can get formed all by themselves whereas photographs are more of an art process that calls for deliberation -- small distinction perhaps.</p>

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<p>According to ancient etymology, the word image should be linked to the root imitari...</p>

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<p>Thus begins Roland Barthes classic and influential semiotic text on photography 'The Rhetoric Of The Image'. A long time since I last read it and truth be known, I can't really recall much more than in it he deconstructs a single image of a pasta advert and that it was a fairly challenging read, but it seems pertinent to remember it here.</p>

<p> Modern usage wins if context is clear enough, I suppose, to indicate <em>Photograph</em> or <em>photograph</em>. Same as <em>Art</em> and <em>ar</em>t. (Initial caps here are for clarity -- not suggesting they be used) I found an example sentence in something I just read relative to data:</p>

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<p>"Another trend in that direction is that young people are telling their stories using <strong>images</strong> rather than text. The current Instragram craze could be due to the fact that you don't have to write anything." </p>

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<p>"Images" and "text" used together in this sentence is neutral. Substituting "photographs" in the sentence might change the tone and privilege the longer word . "…young people are…using <em>photographs </em>rather than…"<br>

Photographs are worth a thousand words. Whereas images are worth 1k words. :-)<br>

<a href="http://phys.org/news/2013-05-big-datafor-worse.html#jCp">Read more at:</a></p>

<p>This is my first time here. What I have is not a answer, but maybe a way to arrive at the answer. This is in response to the philosophy of photoghraphy. Que'ry,- Image vs photograph, Need to know definitions, 1st. Then give examples of each, pros and cons, according to the rules of philosophy of each, to arrive at a conclusion of which is which. What this is, is not your idea of what it should be, according to each individual. Using the rules of philosophy you can, with enough questions arrive at the truth. There you will find a fact. </p>

<p>I would say that the term"image" would refer to any graphical representation presented in any medium while the term "photograph" refers to an image that is formed by capturing any pattern of light on a light sensative recording medium.</p>

<p>I am sure that these distinctions may be blured at the edges by cherry-picking examples, but this is how I organize my world.</p>

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