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sun painting en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, figuratively, historical) A photograph.
Right at the beginning of the history of photography in the 1840s, before artists reacted violently against the threat posed by the new so-called sun paintings, a most extraordinary thing happened.
1971, Christopher Neve, “Serendipity And A Mass Portrait”, in Country Life, volume 150, page 104:
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(figuratively, historical, uncountable) Photography.
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Synonyms
sun picture