pictorialism

Etymology

pictorial + -ism

noun

  1. (photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  2. Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions.
    The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism. December 21, 2007, Karen Rosenberg, “In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds”, in New York Times
  3. The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
    Coordinate term: descriptionalism

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