pictorialism
English
Etymology
pictorial + -ism
Noun
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:
- The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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Related terms
- pictorialist
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