a movement in photography that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century and whose aim was that photographyshould be more artistic and should imitate the paintings of the time
Examples of 'pictorialism' in a sentence
pictorialism
This staging was once admired for its unpretentious pictorialism.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The vivid pictorialism of his descriptions is balanced by a narrative that is capable of intense pathos.