Meanings
plural photoillustrations
- an edited photograph
A photoillustration published in the Winnipeg Tribune on 11 January 1962 showed how Portage Avenue might look
2017, Lawrence D Taylor, “The Winnipeg Monorail Proposal of the 1970s: Using Technological Innovation to Reinvigorate Transit Tom”, in Manitoba History, number 83, pages 14-242 more examples
Suggests that current photoillustration practices receive both denial and reinforcement from empirical research
1985 October 29, Paul Reese, “An Annotated Bibliography of The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication : 1981–1984”, in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, volume 15, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 373–380weeks of work to create one photoillustration. 1. After planning the image, I would start by photographing all the elements
2012 August 24, Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan, James Porto, Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Photoshop Masking & Comp_p2, New Riders, →ISBN
Origin
Perhaps from photograph + illustration.
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