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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

General prices "are but a combination, or composite photograph, as it were, of individual prices."

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

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