{"id":5346,"date":"2021-04-01T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:55:34","slug":"the-devils-dictionary-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=5346","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another article written for <em>On Landscape<\/em> has just appeared.  This takes its inspiration from the Devil&#8217;s Dictionary polished (between 1867 and 1911) by the American author Ambrose Bierce, and said to be one of the greatest works of American satire (an example:  <strong>DISTANCE, n.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep<\/em>).   Bierce only mentions photography once in his dictionary (<strong>PHOTOGRAPH, n.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite as good as that of a Cheyenne<\/em> &#8211; he was not at all politically correct!!), but it definitely seemed to warrant a dictionary of its own (after writing it I did find a couple of other examples online with just a few overlapping definitions).   The article may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlandscape.co.uk\/2021\/03\/devils-dictionary-photography\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onlandscape.co.uk\/2021\/03\/devils-dictionary-photography\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5348\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-468x468.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-220x220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AmbroseBierce-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption>Ambrose Bierce: Author of the Original Devil&#8217;s Dictionary (or Cynic&#8217;s Word Book)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article written for On Landscape has just appeared. This takes its inspiration from the Devil&#8217;s Dictionary polished (between 1867 and 1911) by the American&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-landscape-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}