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.

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composite photograph British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Gallery hopping here costs nothing, so I dropped into the street’s two big art spots, Avant Gallery and Lumas Art Gallery, where I brainstormed how Paul Fuentes’s “Chilling Tiger,” a composite photograph of a louche poolside Bengal, might work in my cottage at the Jersey Shore.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a copy of the image and it said on its website that the photo appealed to Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who bought a print and issued a standing order for every major composite photograph Robinson would make.

From BBC

Betty's most recent official portrait – painted in 1996 to celebrate her 75th birthday – was inspired by a composite photograph, itself based on photographs of 75 real women reflecting the spirit of Betty Crocker and the changing demographics of America.

From Salon

My favourite piece in the exhibition was a big, beautiful composite photograph symbolizing community coalescence, a term that describes how entire microbial communities encounter one another and mix together.

From Nature

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