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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

From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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