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contre-jour [ˈkɒntrəˌʒʊə] n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) Photog a. the technique of taking photographs into the light, with the light source behind the subject b. (as modifier) a contre-jour shot [from French, literally: against day(light)] Translations contre-jour How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Laurie Is Hyperactive, 2000, uses a contre-jour effect as another metaphor for exclusion and lack of knowledge: A family sits around a table, silhouetted against a window; the child's toys, arranged on the sill, are the only compositional elements allowed access to the daylight. It may be that when Dolce chose to describe the essential element of colouring as a contendimento between light and dark, he was intuitively picking up on the dynamic of Venetian contre-jour by choosing a word that implies contest more than contrast" (210). |
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