单词 | photogenic drawing |
释义 | > as lemmasphotogenic drawing photogenic drawing n. now historical (W. H. Fox Talbot's word for) a photograph; spec. a photographic image of a flat translucent object (as a drawing on translucent paper, a leaf, etc.) obtained by placing the object under glass in contact with light-sensitive material; (also, as a mass noun) this art or process, photography. ΚΠ 1839 W. H. F. Talbot Let. to J. F. W. Herschel 29 Jan. in www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk (O.E.D. Archive) The Editors of..‘the Athenæum’ & ‘the Literary Gazette’ have both taken up with zeal (much more than I could have expected) the subject of my discovery of Photogenic Drawing. 1841 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 200 Many improvements in these photogenic drawings, as they have been termed, have been effected more especially by Mr. Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, and Mr. Alfred Taylor. 1973 Times 22 May 28/5 (advt.) Early photographs and related material, including..calotypes by William Henry Fox Talbot; early photogenic drawings; [etc.]. 1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) These so-called photogenic drawings were basically contact prints on light-sensitive paper, which unfortunately produced dark and spotty images. < as lemmas |
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