photographicadj.
/ˌfəʊtəˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəˈɡræfɪk/ 1. Of or relating to photography; used in or produced by photography; engaged or skilled in photography.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective]
photogenic1835
photographic1839
heliographic1840
photographical1842
photo1878
1839 C. Wheatstone Let. to W. H. F. Talbot 2 Feb. in www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk (O.E.D. Archive) Other substances which I hope may be of use to you in your future Photographic experiments.
1839 J. F. W. Herschel Let. 10 Feb. in L. J. Schaaf Sel. Corr. W. H. F. Talbot (1994) 18 Left one or two Photographic Specimens (very poor ones).
1839 A. Fyfe in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 27 147 The use of the camera obscura for Photographic purposes.
1841 W. H. F. Talbot Brit. Patent 8842 4 It should be taken on common photographic paper.
1843 J. F. W. Herschel in Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 4 131 His attention was first called to the subject of M. Daguerre's concealed photographic process, by a note dated the 22nd of January last [sc. 1839].
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany vi. 74 He insisted on my photographic friends..dining with him.
1869 Sci. Amer. 25 Dec. 409/3 Such pictures..are produced by combining a microscope with a photographic camera.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 364/1 During the Franco-Prussian war..small photographic copies of valuable documents and daily papers were made and rolled into quills.
1899 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 3 Mar. 139/1 Adurol is a new photographic developer, said to be obtained from hydroquinone.
1934 H. Curwen Processes Graphic Reproduction Printing i. 64 Printing surfaces prepared by photographic methods.
1959 E. Rondthaler in Penrose Ann. 1 The era of metal type may be passing, replaced by some form or forms of photographic or ‘cold’ composition.
1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 3/2 Charged with attempted murder in the making of ‘snuff’ photographic stills.
2003 J. McManus Positively Fifth Street 291 His convex mirrored lenses must make for some swank photographic effects.
2. figurative. Accurately portraying life or nature; minutely accurate; mechanically imitative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adjective] > in natural state > faithful to original
justc1425
perfect1523
undistorting1823
realistic1829
realista1832
photographic1855
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > photorealist
photographic1855
super-realist1945
hyperreal1973
photorealist1973
1855 E. Everett Dorchester in 1630, 1776, & 1855 6 The images of all that has passed away..abide, with more than photographic truth, upon the inmost chambers of my memory.
1864 Reader 26 Nov. 665/3 Amongst novels of the photographic order we should assign a very high place to ‘Broken to Harness’.
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. New Test. 448 The spiritual value of the Gospels..is to be measured, not by the ‘photographic’ accuracy of their details, but by the extent to which they embody and express that which is the life of Christianity.
1999 Daily Tel. 4 May 27/1 Canasta also had the benefit of an eidetic memory—the gift of vivid and instant photographic recall.
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photographic magnitude n. Astronomy the apparent magnitude of an astronomical object as measured on a photograph (which differs from the visual magnitude because conventional photographic emulsion is more sensitive than the eye at the blue end of the spectrum).
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1886 Proc. Royal Soc. 42 19 In the third column of each table is given the photographic magnitude, computed from the normal equations.
1993 E. Budding Introd. Astron. Photometry ii. 18 In 1912 Pickering published the photographic magnitudes of the chosen North Polar sequence, which had by then grown in number to 96 stars.
photographic memory n. (a) a photograph of a place or event that one may wish to remember or recall; (b) the ability to remember visual perceptions with the accuracy of a photograph; an exceptionally quick or accurate memory.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun] > visually accurate memory
photographic memory1850
camera eye1908
1850 N. P. Willis Life, here & There 435 Why should not the Fairfaxes..give us, from their family records, the many photographic memories they must contain of Washington?
1884 Sat. Evening Observer (Dunkirk, N.Y.) 28 June 8/3 One of his artistic gifts, which has been trained to a remarkable degree, is his photographic memory.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 Mar. 27/1 Unless you have a photographic memory, repetition is vital.
1995 Jewish Tribune (N. York, Ont.) 23 Feb. 31 (advt.) Photographic memories of your simcha by experienced photographer.
photographic paper n. paper with a special coating on which a photographic image can be recorded (as on film) or developed.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper
printing paper1593
photographic paper1840
gelatin paper1851
surface paper1851
print paper1858
Saxe paper1864
tissue1873
carbon paper1878
bromide paper1885
print-out paper1893
mezzotype1894
printing out paper1895
silver paper1898
gaslight paper1899
multigrade1940
contact sheet1959
1840 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 327 Muriated photographic papers, variously prepared, pass, more or less rapidly, through the stages of oxidation.
1865 Sci. Amer. 23 Sept. 194/3 A piece of fine, hard photographic paper was placed in the gelatine.
1995 Harper's Mag. Mar. 12 (caption) Madigan uses a special photographic paper known as ‘printing-out paper’, which develops images immediately upon contact with light.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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