Photography vs. Lithography — What's the Difference?

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication.Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure.

Lithography (from Ancient Greek λίθος, lithos 'stone', and γράφειν, graphein 'to write') is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface.

The art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink.

The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.

The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it.

The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.

The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.

A body of photographs.

A printing process for reproducing images, using any flat surface, such as a metal plate, in a manner similar to lithography{1}.

The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.

The process of producing patterns on semiconductor crystals by exposing photosensitive coatings on a matrix, such as silicon, to light patterns in the form desired for the circuit, and subsequently treating (e.g., chemically) the patterns thus formed in such a way as to create integrated semiconductor circuits with the desired properties. This is the principle method (1990's) to create the high-density integrated circuits used in the digital computers on which you are reading this.

The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

A method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

The act of making a lithographic print

The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.

The act of taking and printing photographs

The process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

The occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies