double exposure
Americannoun
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the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
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the picture resulting from such exposure.
noun
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the act or process of recording two superimposed images on a photographic medium, usually done intentionally to produce a special effect
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the photograph resulting from such an act
Etymology
Origin of double exposure
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Since his career began, Kelly had been pushing cine-dance forward, directing his first sequence and experimenting with double exposure in the “Alter Ego” dance for the 1944 film “Cover Girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"For Europe it's double exposure: exposure to what America might do and then what China will do in response."
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
In one, from 1979, titled “James Baldwin in Setting Sun Over Harlem,” Smith, using double exposure, overlays very faintly a photo she took of Baldwin onto a skyscape of light-shot dark clouds.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Ray was evidently entranced by her: His photographs include a double exposure, reminiscent of Picasso’s cubist portraits, in which her profile view overlaps with a frontal view.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021
The scientific man can explain away the vision as a matter of the technique of double exposure, double printing, trick-turning, or stopping down.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
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