Noun
(photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions.
The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
Coordinate term: descriptionalism
The almost eerie, cold photos of the age of Pictorialism are a far cry from their lively successors. Source: Internet