Hmmmm...
Back when I was getting brainwas- er um, a formal education in photography
(1974~) our instructor drilled us mercilessly to always say "make images"
and not the more common "take pictures". It was an attempt to teach us
subliminal marketing. (images made must be worth more than pictures taken)
I guess the rest of the world finally caught up...
ppro
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> Hey, what's all this talk about images? For more than a century the
> pictures we've taken with our cameras have been called photographs, or
> photos. Of late, images have been used to describe or define our
> pictures. When did this happen, and why? Is this some "newspeak"
> resulting from digital technology, from the posting of scanned photos
> on the 'net, or from the electronic transfer of pictures, which are
> not really photographs but reproductions of photographs.
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> When should I call pictures photographs and when is it appropriate to
> call them images?
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