vortographn.
/ˈvɔːtəɡrɑːf//ˈvɔːtəɡraf/ An abstract photograph taken with a camera and a vortoscope.
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melainotype1856
pistolgram1860
shot1867
snapshot1890
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telephotograph1894
Kodak1895
kite-photograph1897
close-up1913
vortograph1917
trick shot1924
Photomaton1927
rayograph1933
filter shot1937
flash1945
streak photograph1950
satellite picture1954
telephoto1960
digital photograph1962
xograph1974
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1917 E. Pound Let. 24 Jan. (1971) 104 The vortographs are perhaps as interesting as Wadsworth's woodcuts, perhaps not quite as interesting.
1963 Times 29 Apr. 7/2 Mr. Coburn..went on to show the parallels between his photography and the work of painters and sculptors at a later period with his astonishing series of ‘vortographs’—photographic abstractions very close in feeling to the vorticist paintings of Wyndham Lewis and such early Epstein sculptures as ‘The Rock Drill’.
1966 A. L. Coburn Autobiogr. ix. 102 Photography depends upon pattern..as well as upon quality of tone and luminosity, and in the Vortograph the design can be adjusted at will.
1982 M. Weaver Alvin Langdon Coburn 26 Prismatic, triangular effects appeared in the Vortographs in which abstraction and conception superseded observation and perception.
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