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The Photographed Voice

A group of four willing to turn their amps up so loud the earth will crumble and then explode.....and then crumble again.
1. A scientist may say: "Watch out for those kids that make up The Photographed Voice, they're rediculous. So so rediculous."

2. Your cat rolls around on shag carpeting, creating too much static and then touches your small toe. Thus, creating the feeling you have just been hit by The Photographed Voice
by Matthew Hutchings October 24, 2005
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Mhotography

The art of taking pictures from a moving vehicle, usually moving at quite a velocity.
check out some of my Mhotography from the east coast of Australia!
by woodzieworldtour2010 December 20, 2010
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Protographer

Protographer; someone who owns a camera and actually gets paid for it. Someone with a higher level of skill than mere ownership. A professional photographer
Charlie takes pictures of houses to sell houses. Carolyn takes pictures of houses to sell pictures of houses. Charlie has a camera. Carolyn is a protographer.
by Smartycat October 30, 2011
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Photographer

What just about every scene kid and hipster under the age of 25 calls themselves these days. Many own Canon Rebel xtis and rely heavily on cropping and Photoshop filters to give their otherwise mundane photos an "artsy" feel. It is also not uncommon to see them wielding Lomography cameras (usually a Holga, now that they're sold at Urban Outfitters) on any given day. Typically, these "photographers" cite Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, or, in the case of those Vice Magazine devotees, Terry Richardson, Cobrasnake, or Richard Kern, as major influences, because they couldn't name any other photographers to save their lives.

The typical subjects of their photographs include, but are not limited to: pidgeon-toed girls in Converse that have been drawn on with ballpoint pens and/or Sharpies, flowers/weeds growing out of cracks in sidewalks, juxtapositions of objects that typically don't go together (in one such case, a Queen of Hearts playing card on a cracked sidewalk), a girl who looks like something out of an American Apparel ad smoking a cigarette, decaying buildings, and just about anything that looks "vintage" (ie, yellowing washing machines in a laundromat).
16-year-old Dylan took to calling herself a photographer after receiving her Canon Rebel for Christmas, and snapping a few photos of sidewalks in Decatur.
"These photos represent the irony of life," she said.
"And you represent the bane of modern photography," David replied.
by Humberttt January 16, 2008
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Photograph

A photograph is a positive image. It is printed on photosensitive paper, most of the time used to capture the good times in your life.
by Windexter April 17, 2003
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Photographer's image

An image, frequently taken by people with expensive cameras and highly likely to belong to "photographic societies" (a.k.a camera club), that has no emotional impact, social worth, entertainment value or relevance whatsoever but is perceived to display some innate skill in photography.

Essentially it's an exercise in composition over, oh I don't know - content. EXTREMELY likely to be converted to needlessly contrasty monochrome using expensive photoshop plugins that do all the work for you. And if you include diagonal lines you'll make other advocates ejaculate spontaneously because, as we all know, diagonal lines are amazeballs.

You can easily replicate this at home - find a cobbled street, or a building reflection, or literally ANYTHING that's dull as shit. Take the image, making sure you carefully remove any items of human interest, fun, variety, reportage or social meaning then turn it B&W, add an esoteric meaningless title and upload to an elitist, invite only Flickr group. From your Macbook Air.

Not to be confused with Lomography - these jokers are the arch enemies of real photographers.
Google image search for "Edward Weston Attic" - this is widely proclaimed to be a masterpiece by those who value photographer's images. Or Henri Cartier Bresson, another overrated peddler of the "photographer's image".
by mirno February 13, 2013
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photographic constipation

a phenomenon where a beautiful person appears to be in a state of discomfort, almost as if they were constipated, when they know their picture is being taken.
"Chandler what is the matter with your face?" - Friends s7e5

"Did you check out the prom pics? What's up with your face, you look like you have a case of photographic constipation."
by Manrique May 19, 2016
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