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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

I ought, perhaps, to add that I showed to Mr. Keeler a composite photograph taken by one of my sons, wherein a Spirit quite as ethereal as any of Mr. Keeler's, appears in the background.

From Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert by Seybert Commission, The

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