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The English suffix -graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.

Arts

Cartography – art and field of making maps
Choreography – art of creating and arranging dances or ballets
Cinematography – art of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema.
Collagraphy - In printmaking, a fine art technique in which collage materials are used as ink-carrying imagery on a printing plate.
Iconography – art of interpreting the content by icons
Klecksography – art of making images from inkblots
Lithography – planographic printing technique
Photography – art, practice or occupation of taking and printing photographs
Photolithography – method for microfabrication in electronics manufacturing
Pornography – practice, occupation and result of producing sexually arousing imagery or words
Pyrography – art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks
Serigraphy – printmaking technique that uses a stencil made of fine synthetic material through which ink is forced
Tasseography – art of reading tea leaves
Thermography – thermal imaging
Tomography – three-dimensional imaging
Typography – art and techniques of type design
Videography – art and techniques of filming video
Vitreography – in printmaking, a fine art technique that uses glass printing matrices
Xerography – means of copying documents

Writing

Cacography – bad handwriting or spelling
Calligraphy – art of fine handwriting
Orthography – rules of correct writing
Palaeography – study of historical handwriting
Pictography – use of pictographs
Steganography – art of writing hidden messages
Stenography – art of writing in shorthand

Types of works

Bibliography – list of writings, typically those used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work or research
- Metabibliography – bibliography of bibliographies
Biography – account of a person's life
- Autobiography – biography of a person written by themselves
Discography – list of recorded music, or other sound recordings/auditory media
Filmography – list of films, documentaries, or other visual media
Ludography (or gameography) – list of games, specifically video games
Webography (or webliography or arachniography) – list of websites, or URLs

Fields of study

Areography – geography of Mars (studies the physical features of the planet)
Cartography – study and making of maps
Cosmography – study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos
Cryptography – study of securing information
Crystallography – study of crystals
Demography – study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics
Encephalography – recording of voltages from the brain
Ethnography – study of cultures
Floriography – language of flowers
Geography – study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth.
- Physiography – study of the processes and patterns in the Earth's environment.
- Anthropogeography – study of human society's interactions and relationships with the environment.
Hagiography – study of saints
Historiography – study of the methods of historians
Holography – study and mapping of computer project imaged called Holograms for interactive and assisted computations.
Hydrography – measurement and description of any waters
Oceanography – exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena
Orography – science and study of mountains
Radiography – use of X-rays to produce medical images
Reprography – reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means
Selenography – study and mapping of the physical features of the Moon
Topography – study of Earth's surface shape and features or those of planets, moons and asteroids
Uranography – study and mapping of stars and space objects