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photogenic, a.|fəʊtəʊˈdʒɛnɪk, -dʒiːnɪk|
[f. as photogene + -ic: in F. photogénique (Talbot in Comptes Rendus VIII. 341, 4 Mar. 1839). (In sense 3, not etymologically used.)]
1. Produced or caused by light.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. iv. 310 The darkening of the skin caused by long exposure to sunshine... In transparent and semi-transparent creatures any such photogenic effect must pervade the whole body. 1954Brain LXXVII. 234 Photic excitation has been subjected to intense study in electroencephalographic laboratories... Yet clinical descriptions of photogenic epilepsy are few. 1962Times 30 June 12/2 Self-induced photogenic epilepsy in children. 1972Naquet & Meldrum in D. P. Purpura et al. Exper. Models of Epilepsy xv. 373 (heading) Photogenic seizures in baboon.
2. spec. Produced by, or pertaining to, the chemical action of light on a sensitized surface; an earlier word for photographic. Obs. exc. Hist.
photogenic drawing, the term originally used by W. H. Fox Talbot for photography, or for a photograph; spec. a photograph of a flat translucent object (as a drawing on translucent paper, a leaf, etc.), obtained by placing it under glass in contact with a sensitive film. (Hence F. photogénique.)
1839Talbot in Proc. Roy. Soc. (Jan. 31) IV. 120 (title) Some account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the Process by which Natural Objects may be made to delineate them⁓selves without the aid of the Artist's Pencil. 1839Athenæum 2 Feb. 96/2 Mr. Talbot proposes for this new art the name of Photogenic Drawing. 1839Talbot in Lond. & Edin. Philos. Mag. Mar. 1839 This paper, if properly made, is very useful for all ordinary photogenic purposes. 1839Proc. Scot. Soc. Arts 27 Mar. in Edin. New Phil. Jrnl. XXVII. 418 Dr. Fyfe V.P. described Mr. Talbot's process of Photogenic Drawing. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 113 Photogenic drawings, facsimile representations of objects produced according to the recent discovery of M. Daguerre. 1841Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 200 Many improvements in these photogenic drawings, as they have been termed, have been effected more especially by Mr. Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, and Mr. Alfred Taylor. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 388 They were having their portraits taken by the photogenic process. 1849Froude Nemesis of Faith 124 Like the prepared mirror of the photogenic draughtsman. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 157 On this screen is placed a sheet of photogenic paper. 1973Times 22 May 28/5 (Advt.), Early photographs and related material, including..calotypes by William Henry Fox Talbot; early photogenic drawings; [etc.].
3. = photogenetic.
1863Q. Rev. CXIV. 310 There are Grecian and Gothic lighthouses,..but even then we forget these absurdities in contemplating the beauty and perfection of their photogenic arrangements. 1865Spectator 14 Jan. 49 A surrounding envelope of photogenic matter. 1876G. F. Chambers Astron. 711 Those portions of the Moon's surface which are illumined by a very oblique ray from the Sun possess so little photogenic power that [etc.]. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 440 According to Schulze the males of Lampyris splendidula possess two photogenic organs.
4. Of a person or thing: that is a good subject for photography; that shows to good advantage in a photograph or film. Also in Fr. form photogénique. orig. U.S.
1928Reflex June 91/1 The mere doll-face, the photogenic type which thrived on ‘fan’ adulation, will be a thing of the past. 1931S. Goldwyn in Sat. Rev. 14 Feb. 220/1 An actor may be ‘photogenic’ and have personality and appearance, but that is not enough. 1931Daily Express 13 Mar. 19/4 Look at..Pamela Nickalls, with her perfect oval face and high, photogenic forehead. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 631/4 Spain is very probably the most photogénique country in Europe. 1940New Statesman 19 Oct. 379 The thrills in Foreign Correspondent are massive and photogenic to a degree. 1948E. Waugh Loved One 5 Her legs were never photogénique. 1958Newnes Compl. Amat. Photogr. 143 Take two common ‘photogenic’ subjects, a scene of hills and sky, and a child playing in a flower garden. Ibid. 150 It is a fact that very few faces are symmetrical, regular or photogenic. 1974M. Hastings Dragon Island viii. 74 She was a good-looking girl; photogenic..and with the right bone structure.
Hence photoˈgenically adv.; also † ˈphotogenize v. trans. = photograph v. (obs.); photogenous |fəʊˈtɒdʒɪnəs| a. = photogenetic; † phoˈtogeny = photography (obs. rare).
1839Memes tr. Daguerre's Photogenic Drawing (ed. 3) 53 It was I [Daguerre] who first pointed out iodine..as the sensitive coating upon which the image was to be created *photogenically.
1841Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 297, I found grouped..upon the grass before the house, Kit Talbot, Lady E. Fielding, Lady Charlotte and Mrs. Talbot, for the purpose of being *photogenized by Henry Talbot, who was busy preparing his apparatus.
1888Nature 20 Sept. 512/2 To reconcile their theory of *photogenous fermentation with the hypothesis of the oxidation of a phosphorated substance.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 113/1 Photogenic Drawings, facsimile representations of objects produced according to the recent discovery of M. Daguerre... Such apparatus is named after its inventor the Daguerreotype, and the process itself either *photogeny, photography, or heliography (sun⁓drawing).
1959Times 23 Feb. 10/6 There were nets drying photogenically in the sun. 1974Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 13/2 The director..does score photogenically in the action scenes. |