What does pictorialism mean?
Pictorialism means (photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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(photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
Use pictorialism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pictorialism means (photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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