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composite photograph

American  

noun

  1. a photograph characterized by overlapping or juxtaposed images resulting from a multiple exposure or the combining of negatives composite print.


composite photograph British  

noun

  1. a photograph formed by superimposing two or more separate photographs

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The walls were covered with his art: framed self-portraits, tender etchings of his dogs, and a large, brightly colored composite photograph.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

Hoyer, a longtime L.A. resident, bases each of his canvases on a composite photograph digitally stitched together from multiple views of a subject.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2016

In the first gallery, “Surveying the Studio,” a composite photograph from 1967 shows Bruce Nauman’s studio floor strewn with scraps from making sculptures.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2014

The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was strolling benevolently, the little girl clinging to one of his hands, the other holding an apple; and a composite photograph of a thousand grandfathers might have resulted in this man's picture.

From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth