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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Photography) A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
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And so for my own pleasure I have consulted the kodak as furnishing me with a better picture of life than many pictures I have seen by many of the so-called very good artists, and I have always delighted in the rotograph series of the Sunday papers because they are as close to life as any superficial representation can hope to be.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
mutandis26 commented on the word rotograph
n. 1. (Photography) A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
n. 2. photograph of manuscript, etc., made direct on bromide paper without negative.
See also rotoscope.
September 2, 2009