pictorialism
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pictorialism (countable and uncountable, plural pictorialisms)
- (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”, in New York Times[1]:
- The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
- The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
- Coordinate term: descriptionalism
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