PHOTOGRAPH, PHOTOGRAPHER, PHOTOGRAPHY
ADJECTIVES
1970 — PAGE THREE referring to photographs of women with exposed breasts → Brit. sl.
NOUNS
1840 — PHOTOGENY photography → obs.
1881 — CARD a photograph → Sc.
1894 — SNAP a photograph; a snapshot → Amer. colloq.
..20C — ART newspaper photographs of celebrities; photographs of wanted criminals → Amer. sl.
..20C — SMUDGE a photograph → Brit. sl.
1933 — SCENERY a picture, usually a photograph → Amer. dial.
1978 — MUG SHOT a photographic portrait → UK sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1880 — MUGFAKER a street photographer → sl.
1910 — SNAPPER a photographer → UK sl.
1940 — SHUTTERBUG a photography enthusiast; a photographer → Amer. sl.
1961 — SMUDGER a photographer, esp. a street or press photographer → UK sl.
1962 — GLOWWORM an amateur photographer → Amer. photographers’ sl. (Bk.)
1966 — CAMERA CLICKER a photographer → Amer. sl.
1968 — PAPARAZZI press photographers who specialize in the sensational and the celebrated, or a single photographer similarly engaged → UK sl.
1968 — SMUDGE a photographer, esp. a street or press photographer
1975 — PAGE THREE GIRL a girl whose scantily clad, or nude, picture appears as a newspaper pin-up → UK sl.
1979 — MUGSNATCHER a photographer who operates in the street, at a fairground, or at the seaside → UK sl.
1981 — MUGSNAPPER in circus and carnival usage: a travelling photographer → Amer. sl.
1983 — MONKEY a press photographer, a paparazzo; also, a journalist → chiefly Brit. colloq., orig. journalists’ sl.
1990 — PAPS paparazzi → sl.
1999 — SHUTTERBUG a photographer who selects subjects for personal sexual gratification, often without the subject’s knowledge or consent → Amer. sl.
2001 — SNATCH MAN a press photographer → UK sl.
VERBS
1895 — TAKE OFF to take a likeness; to draw, to photograph → Eng. dial.
..20C — SNAP to take a photograph of → Amer. sl.
2004 — PAP to work as a press photographer who specializes in the sensational and the celebrated → UK sl.