From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Photography \Pho*tog"ra*phy\, noun [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]
1. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
2. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
Note: The well-focused optical image is thrown on a surface of metal, glass, paper, or other suitable substance, coated with collodion or gelatin, and sensitized with the chlorides, bromides, or iodides of silver, or other salts sensitive to light. The exposed plate is then treated with reducing agents, as pyrogallic acid, ferrous sulphate, etc., to develop the latent image. The image is then fixed by washing off the excess of unchanged sensitive salt with sodium hyposulphite (thiosulphate) or other suitable reagents.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of taking and printing photographs [syn: {picture taking}]
2: the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces
3: the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "photography": X-ray photography, abstract art, aerial photography, aerophotography, albertype, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, astrophotography, book printing, calligraphy, candid photography, cave art, ceramics, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, chronophotography, cinematography, collotype, color photography, color printing, decoration, design, designing, drawing, electron optics, electronography, electrophotography, electrostatic printing, engraving, etching, fine arts, folk art, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, holography, infrared photography, infrared spectroscopy, integral photography, job printing, laser photography, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, microphotography, microscopics, microscopy, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, optical physics, optics, optometry, painting, palaeotypography, phonophotography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photoheliography, photolithography, photomacrography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, plastic art, primitive art, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, pyrophotography, radiography, relief printing, relief-carving, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sculpture, sheetwork, spectroheliography, spectrometry, spectrophotography, spectrophotometry, spectroscopy, stencil, stereophotography, stereoscopy, telephotography, telescopy, the arts, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, uranophotography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography
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