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  • noun A romantic story illustrated with sequential photographs in the style of a comic strip, published in magazines etc.

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Examples

  • In a stark and amusing appraisal of the conventions of top-shelf misogyny, Linder's early montages depict soft-porn scenes invaded by the shiny tat of domestic technology – Super 8 cameras for heads, vacuum cleaners for genitals, a young woman in a photo-romance clinch stabbing herself in the eyes with a dinner fork.

    Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

  • In a stark and amusing appraisal of the conventions of top-shelf misogyny, Linder's early montages depict soft-porn scenes invaded by the shiny tat of domestic technology - Super 8 cameras for heads, vacuum cleaners for genitals, a young woman in a photo-romance clinch stabbing herself in the eyes with a dinner fork.

    The Guardian World News Brian Dillon 2011

  • But on arriving in Dundee, where he was employed as a trainee magazine journalist, Cumming was astonished to be confronted with toe-curling and long-forgotten images of him posing for teen photo-romance stories.

    unknown title 2009

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