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photogram|ˈfəʊtəgræm|
[f. photo- 2 + -gram (as in telegram): see etym. note to photograph n.]
1. = photograph. Now rare.
1859Luard in Archæol. Cantiana II. 4 A lithographic drawing, from a photogram. 1859(title) Photograms of an Eastern Tour, including Greece, Palestine, Egypt. 1874H. T. Griffith in Cowper's Poems I. Introd. 15 Not reproduced with the mechanical and soulless exactitude of the photogram. 1894Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XLI. 144/2 Portraits like these, such perfect photograms. 1935Amer. Mineral XX. 476 Montmorillonite was x-rayed..and its lines..agree with the powder spectrum photograms of other investigators. 1961(title of periodical) New photograms.
†2. A photograph, picture, diagram, or other facsimile transmitted by wireless or ordinary telegraphy. Obs. (Now called a phototelegram (see photo- 1).)
1928Observer 24 June 23 The wireless photogram service..has been extended. 1928Times 6 Sept. 11/6 The Postal Telegraph Company put into commercial operation to-day a new telephoto and facsimile message service, which it calls photograms. 1929Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. XVI. 4/1 Suppose that transmissions of photo-grams by modified television apparatus can take place at the rate of 30 per second.
3. A photographic picture made without a camera (see quots.). Also † photogramme.
1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 12/2 As a photographer he [sc. Moholy-Nagy] has been a pioneer in the photogramme (the cameraless photography which he regards as the art-form of the future). 1948J. H. Gable Compl. Introd. Photogr. III. xvii. 209 The first photogram was probably made by Fox Talbot by placing lace on a sheet of his calotype paper and exposing it to light. 1958Newnes Comp. Amat. Photogr. iii. xxvii. 241 Photograms can also be made with the aid of a torch bulb. 1972Sci. Amer. Dec. 115/1 A photogram is made without a camera by exposing photographic paper to a point light source, the leaf or the fruit being placed directly on the paper. 1978J. H. Coote Focalguide to Cibachrome 175 You can easily make photograms in colour, directly from leaves, flowers and any other translucent objects. |