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LENSMAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Someone who takes photographs professionally

Synonyms:

lensman; photographer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lensman" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lensman"):

camera operator; cameraman; cinematographer (a photographer who operates a movie camera)

paparazzo (a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines)

press photographer (a photographer who works for a newspaper)

Instance hyponyms:

Brady; Mathew B. Brady (United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896))

Alfred Eisenstaedt; Eisenstaedt (United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898))

Dorothea Lange; Lange (United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965))

Edward Jean Steichen; Steichen (United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973))

Alfred Stieglitz; Stieglitz (United States photographer (1864-1946))

Fox Talbot; Talbot; William Henry Fox Talbot (English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877))

Edward Weston; Weston (United States photographer(1886-1958))

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