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Photograms

Scope note

Photographs produced without a camera, usually by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light. Includes Talbot's first photographs, which he called photogenic drawings. In the early 20th century the term was sometimes used to mean all photographs.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000127296

Equivalent Terms used

photogram

Created

13yrs ago

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