photographistn.
/fəˈtɒɡrəfɪst/, U.S. /fəˈtɑɡrəfəst/ Now chiefly historical.
= photographer n. Also figurative.
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1843 W. H. Thornthwaite Photogr. Manip. 3 One of the chief endeavours of the Photographist.
1851 E. Hitchcock Relig. Geol. xii. 393 What if it should turn out that sable night..is an unerring photographist!
1872 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 71 There are some faces so mobile that photographists cannot take them.
1911 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 26 529 It is as if the actors in a burlesque had one by one left the stage and obligingly posed for a photographist.
1936 Sci. Monthly Jan. 71/1 Carvalho..was not going to let any mere photographist supplant him.
1962 R. V. Hine Edward Kern & Amer. Expansion v. 104 As artist of the expedition, he was also ‘photographist’, in charge of a mass of daguerreotype apparatus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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