• Pictorialism

    Origin

    pictorial + -ism

    Full definition of pictorialism

    Noun

    pictorialism

    (uncountable)
    1. (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
    2. Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions
      • 2007, December 21, Karen Rosenberg, In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds, The black-and-white portraits and landscapes in Bhutan, the Sacred Within: Photographs by Kenro Izu, taken over the past five years, ...
        fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.

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