pictorialism
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pictorialism (uncountable)
- (photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions
- 2007 December 21, Karen Rosenberg, “In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds”, New York Times:
- The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
- 2007 December 21, Karen Rosenberg, “In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds”, New York Times:
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Pictorialism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
