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What Two words photography is derived from?
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What Two words photography is derived from?

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Writing with light. The word photography came from two Greek words that mean "writing with light.
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The word photography is derived from the greek roots "photo" and "graphe" (the spelling is with Greek Characters though :P ) which mean together "light drawing".
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