>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.
>
>When should I call pictures photographs and when is it appropriate to
>call them images?
Calling photographs "images" is like calling spaghetti "pasta". It's new
and trendy, but not inaccurate. The former term is a subset of the latter.
--
Mark Roberts
www.robertstech.com
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