photographeress
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From photographer + -ess.
Noun
[edit]photographeress (plural photographeresses)
- (rare) A female photographer.
- 1891, The Oberlin Review:
- Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women...
- 1975, E M Broner, Her Mothers:
- "The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees."
- 1998, Heinz K Henisch, Positive Pleasures: Early Photography and Humor:
- As your charming photographeress cannot explain by word what she wishes...