pictorialism
noun
the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
pictorialist
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a word derived from
pictorialism.
Example Sentences
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In doing so, he challenged not just the prevailing romanticism of the American pictorialist tradition but also the easy certainties of photojournalism.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2019
Uta Barth’s photographs have always nodded heavily toward painting — particularly the misty look of Impressionism, which influenced pictorialist photographers, and strains of abstraction.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017
Female photographers also played a prominent role in it, and the work its members produced — much of it in a "pictorialist" vein — could be both ravishing and innovative.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
Paradoxically, the care with which Lean lets such intricately wrought correspondences speak for themselves creates a danger that the partially attentive may again mistake him for what he is not: an empty pictorialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
This characteristic trait dominates the very soul of the Western pictorialist.
From Pictorial Photography in America 1920 by Pictorial Photographers of America
