photo-biographyn.
/ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəfi/ A photographic account of a person's life; (also) photography used as a biographical medium.
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family piece1709
hikayat1808
heterobiography1825
necrology1830
life and times1866
life and works1907
photo-biography1915
hagiography1924
vie romancée1941
as-told-to1966
photo-essay1977
1915 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 4 Aug. 4/1 For two days starting Saturday, the New Palace will present the amazing photo biography of Leo Frank.
1944 Spectator 3 Mar. 188/1 A ‘photobiography’, consisting of 250 scenes from Woodrow Wilson's life, with 150 pages of letterpress..is in an advanced stage of preparation.
1951 C. Beaton (title) Photobiography.
2000 L. Doan Fashioning Sapphism 176 Hall—and often Troubridge as well—visited the studios of professional portrait photographers to document significant occasions..constituting, in effect, a photo-biography of crucial junctures in Hall's career.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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