photogram
(ˈfəʊtəgræm)
[f. photo- 2 + -gram (as in telegram): see etym. note to photograph n.]
1. = photograph. Now rare.
| 1859 Luard in Archæol. Cantiana II. 4 A lithographic drawing, from a photogram. 1859 (title) Photograms of an Eastern Tour, including Greece, Palestine, Egypt. 1874 H. T. Griffith in Cowper's Poems I. Introd. 15 Not reproduced with the mechanical and soulless exactitude of the photogram. 1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XLI. 144/2 Portraits like these, such perfect photograms. 1935 Amer. Mineral XX. 476 Montmorillonite was x-rayed..and its lines..agree with the powder spectrum photograms of other investigators. 1961 (title of periodical) New photograms. |
† 2. A photograph, picture, diagram, or other facsimile transmitted by wireless or ordinary telegraphy. Obs. (Now called a phototelegram (see photo- 1).)
| 1928 Observer 24 June 23 The wireless photogram service..has been extended. 1928 Times 6 Sept. 11/6 The Postal Telegraph Company put into commercial operation to-day a new telephoto and facsimile message service, which it calls photograms. 1929 Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. XVI. 4/1 Suppose that transmissions of photo-grams by modified television apparatus can take place at the rate of 30 per second. |
3. A photographic picture made without a camera (see quots.). Also † photogramme.
| 1934 Archit. Rev. LXXV. 12/2 As a photographer he [sc. Moholy-Nagy] has been a pioneer in the photogramme (the cameraless photography which he regards as the art-form of the future). 1948 J. H. Gable Compl. Introd. Photogr. III. xvii. 209 The first photogram was probably made by Fox Talbot by placing lace on a sheet of his calotype paper and exposing it to light. 1958 Newnes Comp. Amat. Photogr. iii. xxvii. 241 Photograms can also be made with the aid of a torch bulb. 1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 115/1 A photogram is made without a camera by exposing photographic paper to a point light source, the leaf or the fruit being placed directly on the paper. 1978 J. H. Coote Focalguide to Cibachrome 175 You can easily make photograms in colour, directly from leaves, flowers and any other translucent objects. |