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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