photographic, a.
(fəʊtəʊˈgræfɪk)
[f. as photography + -ic: see -graphic. (As to origin, see photography.)]
a. Of, pertaining to, used in, or produced by photography; engaged or skilled in photography.
| 1839 Herschel in Proc. Roy. Soc. (Mar. 14) IV. 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. 1839 A. Fyfe in Edin. New Phil. Jrnl. (April 10) XXVII. 147 The use of the camera obscura for Photographic purposes. 1841 Talbot Specif. Patent No. 8842. 4 It should be taken on common photographic paper. a 1845 Hood Daguerr. Portrait i, Her nose, and her mouth, with the smile that is there, Truly caught by the Art Photographic! 1859 Jephson Brittany vi. 74 He insisted on my photographic friends..dining with him. 1883 Hardwich's Photogr. Chem. (ed. Taylor) 39 It is gradually formed in the Photographic Nitrate Bath. |
b. fig. Accurately portraying life or nature; minutely accurate; mechanically imitative.
| 1864 Reader 26 Nov. 665/3 Amongst novels of the photographic order we should assign a very high place to ‘Broken to Harness’. 1883 Ruskin Art of Eng. 30 Ouida's photographic story of ‘A Village Commune’. 1890 Chicago Advance 24 July, Not..to be taken as pragmatical, photographic prose. |
c. photographic memory: a memory that records visual perceptions with the accuracy of a photograph.
| 1940 in Chambers's Techn. Dict. 638/1. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair vii. 73 She has a photographic memory... She would remember what she saw. 1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 62 He is perhaps a person weak in visual imagery and visual memory of all types, the opposite of the person with eidetic imagery and photographic memory. 1974 A. Morice Killing with Kindness iv. 37 I've got what they call a photographic memory and I don't visualise her wearing a wedding ring. |