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contre-jour

photographic technique in which the light source is directly in or near the direction of the subject
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contre-jour

Summary

contre-jour is a lighting[1]. contre-jour draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (lighting category, ranking #4 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • contre-jour's instance of is recorded as lighting[3].
  • contre-jour's instance of is recorded as photographic technique[4].
  • contre-jour's instance of is recorded as photography genre[5].
  • contre-jour's subclass of is recorded as photograph[6].
  • contre-jour's Commons category is recorded as Contre-jour photography[7].
  • contre-jour's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01dh5p[8].
  • contre-jour's hashtag is recorded as ContreJour[9].
  • contre-jour's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T019248[10].
  • contre-jour's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02772674-n[11].
  • contre-jour's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kontrazhur-dc19b4[12].
  • contre-jour's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 42732[13].

Why It Matters

contre-jour draws 49 Wikipedia views per month (lighting category, ranking #4 of 6).[2] contre-jour has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] contre-jour is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). contre-jour. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/contre-jour
MLA “contre-jour.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/contre-jour.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_contre-jour_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{contre-jour}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/contre-jour}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): contre-jour — https://4ort.xyz/entity/contre-jour (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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