Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of photography or a photograph.
- adjective Used in photography.
- adjective Resembling a photograph, especially representing or simulating something with great accuracy and fidelity of detail.
- adjective Capable of retaining accurate or vivid impressions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hence In lit., imitated or imitating with precise and minute detail, indicating lack of artistic feeling and originality in the writer.
- Of, pertaining to, using, or produced by photography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a
photographic picture; aphotographic camera. - adjective the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
photographs orphotography .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph
- adjective relating to photography or obtained by using photography
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Examples
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With regard to his other Query, I think there can be no doubt of his being at liberty to publish a photographic _copy_ of a portrait, Mr. Fox Talbot having reserved only the right to paper copies of a _photographic_ portrait.
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The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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The term photographic suggests that the viewer of material takes a mental photo of what he or she has seen and can latter draw upon that image to recall the information one has encountered.
Article Source 2009
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Images of the human form have a long history in photographic practice, and with a few notable exceptions - Imogen Cunningham and Ruth Bernhard come to mind - it has predominantly been the male gaze upon the naked female body.
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Since 2002 he has been working on a long-term photographic study about the live and work of Chinese migrant workers.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Tokyo Photo Dead Wave: Andreas Seibert 2010
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Images of the human form have a long history in photographic practice, and with a few notable exceptions - Imogen Cunningham and Ruth Bernhard come to mind - it has predominantly been the male gaze upon the naked female body.
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-- Flickr folks are protesting Microsoft in photographic ways.
Coffee Break: Feb. 5 2008
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In optics, the interference will be observed as dark and bright fringes and can be recorded in photographic film or any other light detector.
Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005
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Or that women with whips appeared in photographic erotica 80 years ago?
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Or that women with whips appeared in photographic erotica 80 years ago?
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