invention of photography

collocation in English

meaningsofinventionandphotography

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invention
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈven.ʃən/us
/ɪnˈven.ʃən/
something that has never been made before, or the process of creating something that has never been ...
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photography
noun[U]
uk
/fəˈtɒɡ.rə.fi/us
/fəˈtɑː.ɡrə.fi/
the activity or job of taking photographs ...
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(Definition ofinventionandphotographyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theinventionofphotographycould facilitate a power over the criminal individual that was unimaginable before.
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The series was created to mark the 150th anniversary of theinventionofphotography.
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Theinventionofphotographymeant that reproduction of art works could be achieved photographically instead of through the graphic arts of etching, engraving, and lithography.
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It was used by people wanting to keep a memento to a loved one before theinventionofphotography.
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After theinventionofphotography, many people had photographs taken of recently dead family members.
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Prior to theinventionofphotography, all astronomy was done with the naked eye.
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Theinventionofphotography(photography and daguerreotypy were one and the same) made cataclysmic changes throughout society regarding what was illusion and what was reality.
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Continuing industrialization was uprooting longstanding traditions, and rapid advances in science and technology, especially theinventionofphotography, left some people discomforted and confused.
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Theinventionofphotographyand halftone printing created a new kind of graphic workerphotoengravers.
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Following theinventionofphotography, artists began to abandon traditional drawing practises.
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After theinventionofphotography, primitive aerial photographs were made of the ground from manned and unmanned balloons, starting in the 1860s, and from tethered kites from the 1880s onwards.
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