pictorialism

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.

3

The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.

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