Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to chromogen.
  • Producing color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen.

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  • adjective photography Describing a process in which a black-and-white image is replaced by a coloured one
  • adjective biology Containing or producing chromogen

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Examples

  • Todd Hido's chromogenic picture of a solitary house in a rundown neighborhood, "#1975-A," was also taken at night, but the light on in the attic room signals life, whatever it is that the person or people inside may be doing.

    Shadows and Light Somewhere in Time William Meyers 2011

  • The 19 medium-format chromogenic prints at Richardson were taken by Ms. van Manem during extensive travels in Uzbekistan, Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Moscow and Tatarstan in the early 1990s.

    Candid Albums Of Strangers William Meyers 2012

  • But these are in the show's largest room with "Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe" 1995, 40 chromogenic color prints of a bright yellow motorcycle photographed against differing backgrounds.

    Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything Paul Levy 2011

  • Wood projected slides spanning over five decades -- from the '60s to the present -- on walls throughout the now empty rooms, combining anywhere from two up to six slide projections per chromogenic print.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

  • The buildings in Todd Hido's chromogenic prints are anything but pristine.

    Looking Inside and Out William Meyers 2011

  • Andreas Gursky's 99 cents (1999), a chromogenic color print, which held the record in 2007 for the highest price paid at auction for a single image when it sold for £1. 7m at Sotheby's

    The world's most expensive photography books The Nag 2009

  • Would anyone but a fan hang Justin Bieber on the wall, even in an archival chromogenic print?

    Putting Rock Stars on the Wall Christina Binkley 2011

  • In Isseu Diouf's chromogenic print "Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba Day in the streets of Harlem: men of the Murid Brotherhood walk on Saint Nicholas Avenue towards Saint Nicholas Park, Harlem, New York, July 28, 2010," the figures of the marchers mingle with the figures on signs.

    A Snapshot in the Dark William Meyers 2011

  • Would anyone but a fan hang Justin Bieber on the wall, even in an archival chromogenic print?

    Putting Rock Stars on the Wall Christina Binkley 2011

  • Wood projected slides spanning over five decades -- from the '60s to the present -- on walls throughout the now empty rooms, combining anywhere from two up to six slide projections per chromogenic print.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

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