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Photography > Pictorial photography

Preferred term

Pictorial photography  

Definition

  • Photographic style that advocated an expressive feeling and the adaptation of the styles and subjects of traditional painting; concerned with idealized and personal views and picturesque scenes, careful attention to the nuance of light and evidence of the hand of the artist [McDarrah]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pictorialism
  • Pictorialist photography

Notation

  • 118714

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-VL2ZDLS7-6

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