Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An image produced without a camera by placing an object on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light.
  • noun A photograph.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as photograph.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A photograph.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A photograph made without using a camera; normally by placing an object in contact with photosensitive paper and exposing it to light

Etymologies

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photo- + -gram

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Examples

  • Robert Anderson Gallery Chuck Kelton's 'In Plain Sight' at Robert Anderson A photogram is an image produced without a camera by light striking photosensitive paper; when the paper is developed, whatever blocked the light from the paper is visible as a silhouette.

    Shining a Light on Loss William Meyers 2011

  • A photogram is an image made by placing an object onto light-sensitive paper and exposing it to light, without the use of a camera.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Special 96hours@sfchronicle.com (Nirmala Nataraj 2012

  • The title, by the way, is not a misprint: 'photogram' is simply an archaic word for a photograph.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • The title, by the way, is not a misprint: 'photogram' is simply an archaic word for a photograph.

    December 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • The title, by the way, is not a misprint: 'photogram' is simply an archaic word for a photograph.

    The Best of Friends Michael Allen 2004

  • His "photogram", entitled Latticed Window (at Lacock Abbey), re-appears now as a large, blue-tinted photogram by Floris Neusüss, who also exhibits ghostly, life-sized impressions of women who lightly touched large sheets of sensitised paper and became floating shadow puppets.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • His "photogram", entitled Latticed Window (at Lacock Abbey), re-appears now as a large, blue-tinted photogram by Floris Neusüss, who also exhibits ghostly, life-sized impressions of women who lightly touched large sheets of sensitised paper and became floating shadow puppets.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Meanwhile, master of the photogram, Floris Neusüss, is creating an image of the window at Lacock Abbey, subject of the first ever photographic negative from 1835.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • There's an emphasis on what can't be seen in Adam Fuss's photogram of a baby, exploring transcendent moments, or in Susan Derges's photographs that capture cycles of nature, with photographic paper dunked in rivers.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • The monochrome "Orange" (2002) by Neil Winokur, a single orange shot against a background the same color as the fruit; Mr. Mortenson's "Sapowet Point" (1998), a delicate black-and-white study of the east coast of Narragansett Bay, R.I.; and Hanno Otten's colorful photogram "Lichtbild 163" (2007) inhabit different aesthetic universes, but the same gallery.

    Experiments in Color, Style William Meyers 2012

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