写真集

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 写真集 combines 写真, photograph, with 集, collection, and is read しゃしんしゅう.
• Basic usage: It denotes a book collecting photographs, as in 写真集にまとめる and 写真集を借りる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Result and source material
  • In 写真を写真集にまとめる, the individual photographs are the material and the 写真集 is the resulting collection.
• Difference from 写真
  • 写真 denotes a photograph or photographs themselves, while 写真集 is a book that gathers photographs around a subject.