Associations to the word «Pictorialism»

Wiktionary

PICTORIALISM, noun. (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
PICTORIALISM, noun. Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.