Synonyms of photograph

photograph 1 of 2

noun

ˈfō-tə-ˌgraf 

as in photo

a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera

the old photograph was faded but still clear enough to make out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• photo
• pic
• snapshot
• print
• shot
• snap
• enlargement
• still
• close-up
• blowup
• telephoto
• daguerreotype
• monochrome
• sepia
• tintype
• ferrotype

photograph

2 of 2

verb

as in to photo

to take a photograph of

we've been photographing the baby virtually nonstop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• photo
• picture
• shoot
• film
• snap
• image
• mug
• videotape
• retake
• rephotograph

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of photograph

Noun

Parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sold their first photograph for about $14 million, a record amount at the time, which the then-couple placed with their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to global humanitarian efforts. — Amaia Odriozola, Vanity Fair, 11 July 2026

Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026

Verb

The song was paired with a lyric video that reuses two-decade-old footage shot by collaborator Cliff Watts, who also photographed Beyoncé’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover. — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026

McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee. — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026