Glossary

aesthetics Initially, aesthetics was concerned with the study of ideas about beauty or taste. More recently, it has been concerned with the principles (or ‘rules’) of art as well as the broader aspects of artistic practice.

analogue An image that is composed upon the principles of traditional technologies – of painting, drawing (see chirographic) or chemical photography.

anthropometric photography The use of the camera to record other cultures as a variety of types, concentrating on physical attributes – such as measurement – for scientific comparison.

aspect ratio The relationship between the width and height of the image produced by the camera that provides the proportions of the frame in which the photograph can be composed.

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