Definition of "light-box" [light-box]

• Nautical, same as lightroom, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Some of this is because of Mr. Wheeler's perfectionism and his exasperation with gallery owners who wanted him to keep cranking out the softly glowing light-box "paintings" that initially got him attention in the 1960s."
• "One of his most spectacular light-box photographs is inspired by the opening pages of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and shows a black man sitting in a room under dozens of light bulbs—a shot Mr. Wall says he had to work at doggedly until at last he got the bulbs to look right."
• "The first room shows light-box images inspired by the 19th-century art he admires, like the studio shot of an upturned room that was loosely inspired by Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapalus" 1827."