pictorialistn.
/pɪkˈtɔːrɪəlɪst/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɔriələst/ A person who makes pictures; spec. a person who practises photographic pictorialism (cf. pictorialism n.).
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > one who describes
descriptor1528
describer?1550
painter1570
presenter1608
delineator1631
imagera1680
detailer1794
descriptionist1819
pictorialist1839
word-painter1839
delineatress1848
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > in specific style
pictorialist1839
conventionalist1846
polychromatist1854
nudist1866
scholastic1892
archaicist1957
assemblagist1963
eroticist1965
conceptualist1970
orientalist1983
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles > user of
pictorialist1839
extravaganzista1849
fantast1873
primitive1958
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 530 Not by the minute pencilling of the pictorialists.
1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film iv. xii. 209 Although Tourneur was an impressive pictorialist and director of talent in his day, his films did not stand the wear of time.
1971 Amateur Photographer 3 Mar. 6/2 The panel..does not have the dynamic impact of new pictures or of the more forceful avant-garde work of some modern pictorialists.
1990 Photography June 13/2 Through sheer wizardry [he] manages to avoid the cloying banality of the ‘Pictorialists’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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