photogram
Americannoun
noun
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a picture, usually abstract, produced on a photographic material without the use of a camera, as by placing an object on the material and exposing to light
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obsolete a photograph, often of the more artistic kind rather than a mechanical record
Etymology
Origin of photogram
Example Sentences
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She also collected dust and dirt swept up while at home for almost three months under covid restrictions, printing one pile of debris each day as a near-abstract photogram.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
She was old and infirm and had retired to a house in Provence by the time she went back to photography, adding floral photogram borders to her early portraits of Surrealist friends and peers.
From The New Yorker ● May 21, 2019
As cyanotypes are not made from a negative, each Atkins photogram was one-of-a-kind — making “British Algae” an arduous enterprise that took a decade of labor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
A negative can then be placed atop the dried paper and exposed to sunlight to create a print, or an object can be arranged on it to produce a photogram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2018
He meant the big photogram of the tropical beach.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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