composite photograph

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noun

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

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How to use composite photograph in a sentence

No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
The Best Gift Books of 2014|William O’Connor|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
CIA Interrogation Chief: ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News to Me|Kimberly Dozier|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph Cirque du Soleil.
A Backstage Love Affair With Cirque du Soleil|Allison McNearney|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The composite photo whose eyes follow you around the room are less Matthew Lewis or Sheridan Le Fanu than “Scooby-Doo.”
An Ivy League Frat Boy’s Shallow Repentance|Stefan Beck|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He seemed to pass under the mastery of a great mood that was a composite reproduction of all the moods of his forgotten boyhood.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
I will drop his photograph into the fire, and tear the fly-leaf out of the Mrs. Browning he gave me.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
Christianity seems to be a composite religion, made up of fragments of religions of far greater antiquity.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The lady who accompanied her he guessed to be her stepsister; indeed, he had seen a photograph of her at Hill Street.
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux
Was it possible, he wondered, that he had seen that striking face in some photograph, or perhaps in some illustrated paper?
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux

British Dictionary definitions for composite photograph

composite photograph

noun

a photograph formed by superimposing two or more separate photographs

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