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Photogenics

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Photogenics

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October 31, 2023

The term “photogenic” is most properly applied to light-emitting creatures or sunlight-caused cancerous growths; it’s a physical and biological descriptor. The most common use of the term today, though, was reportedly coined back in 1925 when producer Samuel Goldwyn described a tennis star and Austrian noble named Count Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten as th…

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