record (noun: “a record”)

How to pronounce “record,” the noun

TTG uses the noun “record” to describe “what the camera recorded.” The term means nothing more and nothing less.

For reasons explained on this page, TTG embraces a particularly 21st-century view of photographs, regarding them not as objective “facts” (the 19th/20th-century view) but rather as “records” of “what one person saw, in one small corner of the world, at one repeatable time.”

Some of those photographic “records” will be more trustworthy than other photographic “records” are (see FAQ #311), but on this website all photographic “records” are treated as “subjective” perspectives, not as “objective facts.”

Questions #314-317 have more on the “subjective” nature of all photographs.