nonphotographically

adverb

Not photographically; in a nonphotographic way.

Scrabble 35

Meanings

adverbnonphotographically (not comparable)

alternative non-photographically

  1. not comparableNot photographically; in a nonphotographic way.

    This may be done in principle by humans with photographs; it is more likely to be automatically done with digitized TV pictures and a computer, in the observatory, or done non-photographically, as in the GRO, but with a hundred-fold increase in data rate.

    1985, Robert C. Haymes, “Lunar based gamma ray astronomy”, in W. W. Mendell, editor, Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 313
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    ClampArt, on West 25th Street, has featured a great deal of photography since opening in 2003. But Brian Clamp, the gallery's owner, said, "With the notion of medium specificity having less and less relevance, we will begin mounting occasional solo exhibitions by artists producing nonphotographically related paintings and works on paper."

    2006 December 3, Philip Gefter, “What’s New in Photography: Anything but Photos”, in The New York Times

    In my original article, with the themes of the special issue in mind, I focus on Krauss’s claims about the invention of new media in what I call the photographically dependent arts. As I point out, nothing I say is meant to hang on this designation, and my arguments, if sound, should generalize to Krauss’s similar claims for the inventive powers of artists working in unrelated (nonphotographically dependent) art forms.

    2014, Diarmiud Costello, ““But I Am Killing Them!” Reply to Charles Palermo and Jan Baetens on Agency and Automatism”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 41, number 1, →DOI, page 180

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
  16. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
  17. Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
  18. Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
  19. Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
  20. Englishphoto-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  22. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  23. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  24. Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
  25. Englishphoto-
  26. Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
  27. Englishphotograph
  28. Englishphotographic
  29. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  30. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  31. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  32. Proto-Germanic*līką
  33. Englishphotographically
  34. Englishnonphotographically

From non- + photographically.

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