Definition of "image-maker" []

• Informal One who uses the techniques of advertising or public relations to create a favorable view, as of a person or institution. (noun)

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• "You can be stubborn and go after an image, but I'm not an image-maker; I'm a dressmaker."
• "Toward the end of Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour, an oral history that traces the life and career of the late photographer, we are treated to a piece of wisdom from another famous image-maker who died in the past decade, Helmut Newton."
• "His skills as an image-maker are highly stylized, imbuing unthinkable horror with a disturbing poetry that makes the most overplayed plot points in the genre feel charged with vitality."