“Mutum est pictura poems.” (A picture is a silent poem)

A picture is in the past known as a painting (photos didn’t exist then).

So in some ways when we talk about photographs, this is more specific. A picture can mean painting OR photograph.

PINGO

The word PINGO in latin; to decorate, embellish, paint, tint, color, or portray. I believe this word is similar to the word ‘pigment’.

From the proto-indo-european ‘peyk-‘ which means to cut, hew, stitch, embroider, sting (and by extension) paint, mark, color.

Are photographers that different from painters?

My thought:

A photographer is just a modern painter.

A photographer is the new evolution or the new version or the more technological version of a painter. If Leonardo da Vinci were alive today would he make photos? OF COURSE!