contact print

contact print

noun Photography.
a photographic print made by placing a negative directly in contact with sensitized paper, with their emulsion surfaces facing, and exposing them to light.


Origin:
1930–35
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contact print
 
n
a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it

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