What is the diffrence between image,picture and photograph?

A photograph is an image or a picture. A picture and an image can be the same thing. An image or a picture need not necessarily be a photograph.

In PHOTOGRAPHY, they have generically became the same thing. I have a picture of us swimming. I have an image of us swimming. I have a photograph of us swimming. I took a picture of Big Foot. I took an image of Big Foot. I took a photograph of Big Foot. Photographs were usually taken from the result of photography. It is usually in referenced to photographic arts. Pictures were usually your everyday event - picnic, party, friends... Images were usually along the line of art or extraordinary things or persons. Today, it is usually used in printing business, newspapers, magazine, any medium, and even used as still images. Outside of PHOTOGHRAPY, they have different meanings. PICTURE: A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed IMAGE: A reproduction of the form of a person or an object, especially a sculptured likeness. PHOTOGRAPH: An image, especially a positive print, recorded by a camera and reproduced on a photosensitive surface.

I was just thinking about this the other day. Ultimately, I think it matters who you are talking to. An image is something you can look at. When it becomes a stand-in for something in the "real world", that is when an image becomes a picture. A photograph is an image made using photographic processes. You can make a photographic image that is not pictorial. It is why you can have the act of "taking someone's picture" and its a photograph and also think of paintings as pictures as well.

Photographs are prints on photographic paper. A painting is not a photograph its is a picture or image on canvas or whatever. A photograph is an image or picture printed on photographic paper generally. Really its just semantics. a