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Photographers on a Fashion show

Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival

A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living.

Photographers are often categorized based on the subjects they photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Other photographers specialize in subjects unique to photography, including street photography, documentary photography, fashion photography, wedding photography and commercial photography. Paparazzi are photographers who do candid photography of celebrities. The distinction between artistic photography and photojournalism or other types of photography and the associated techniques does not remove this personal aspect from the work of the great photographers.

A photographer uses his tools as a means of communication, a way to "transfer information". They are being ‘autobiographical’; as they are there when the shot is taken it is, literally, their point of view of things.

See also

• List of photographers

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