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Photography > Photograms

Preferred term

Photograms  

Definition

  • Photographs produced without a camera, usually by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light; in the early 20th c. the term was sometimes used to mean all photographs [AAT, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Cameraless photographs
  • Lensless photographs
  • Physiotypes
  • Rayograms
  • Rayographs
  • Rayography
  • Schadograms
  • Schadographs
  • Shadograms
  • Shadographs
  • Shadow pictures

Notation

  • 119022

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-M40DRF5K-M

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