Exposure or Exposures may refer to:

People

The Exposures Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names Farben, Gramm and The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as minimal techno, glitch (music), glitch or microhouse, and is characterized by deep basslines, exte ...

, a pseudonym for German electronic musician Jan Jeline

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Exposure'' (film), a 1932 American film * ''Exposure'', another name for the 1991 movie ''

A Grande Arte ''A Grande Arte'' (in English, ''The Great Art''; US title: ''Exposure''), is a 1991 Brazilian movie directed by Walter Salles Jr. and starring Peter Coyote. Loosely based on the book ''A Grande Arte'' by Brazilian Rubem Fonseca, it is one of t ...

'' starring Peter Coyote * Exposure (sculpture) a 2010 steel frame sculpture located in the Netherlands

Literature

* ''Exposure'' (Peet novel), a 2008 sports novel by Mal Peet * ''Exposure'' (Reichs novel), a 2014 novel in the Virals series by Kathy and Brendan Reichs * '' Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont'', a 2019 book by Robert Bilott * ''Exposure'', 2016 novel by

Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels ''Zennor in Darkness'', '' A Spell of Winter'' and ''The Siege'', and her last ...

* "Exposure", written in 1918, published in 1920, poem by

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by ...

Music

Albums

* ''Exposure'' (Exposé album), 1987 * ''Exposure'' (Robert Fripp album), released in 1979 * ''Exposure'' (Gary Numan album), a compilation album, 2002 * ''Exposure'' (Esperanza Spalding album), 2017 * ''

Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial ''Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial'' is a compilation album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity, that was released in 2004. Disc 1 Tracks 1 and 2 were recorded during the ''Damage Done'' sessions in 2002. Track 1 had ...

'', a 2004 compilation album by metal band Dark Tranquility

Songs

* "Exposure", a song from ''

Projector A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types ...

'' by Dark Tranquillity * "Exposure", a song from '' Discoveries'' by Northlane * "Exposure", a song from the self-titled 1978 album ''

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. He rose to fame as the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched ...

Photography

Exposure (photography) In photography, exposure is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane's illuminance times the exposure time) reaching a frame of photographic film or the surface of an electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens ...

, the quantity of light or other radiation reaching a photographic film *

Exposure value In photography, exposure value (EV) is a number that represents a combination of a camera's shutter speed and f-number, such that all combinations that yield the same exposure have the same EV (for any fixed scene luminance). Exposure value is a ...

, a value given to all combinations of camera shutter speed and aperture that gives the same exposure

Television

Series

* ''Exposure'' (U.S. TV series), a short film anthology series on Sci-Fi Channel from 2000–2002 * ''Exposure'' (British TV series), a current affairs strand on ITV which began in 2011

Episodes

* "Exposure" (''Dark Angel'') * "Exposure" (''The Unit'')

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Exposure (magic) Exposure in magic refers to the practice of revealing the methods of magic tricks. The practice is generally frowned upon amongst magicians, who believe that it ruins the experience of magical performances for audiences. Exposure is uniquely im ...

, revealing magicians' secrets * ''Exposure'', a webcomic from

Red Giant Entertainment Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. is a Florida-headquartered comic book publisher and "transmedia" entertainment company established in 2005. Red Giant was founded by Benny R. Powell, former marketing writer for Priceline.com. Other key players in ...

Law

* Exposure, potential for legal

damages At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognised at ...

Abandonment (legal) In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up or renunciation of an interest, claim, civil proceedings, appeal, privilege, possession, or right, especially with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting it. Such intentional act ...

, multiple meanings in law

Science and medicine

Biology and healthcare

* Exposure, in biology, contact of an organism with a harmful agent, e.g.,

chemical A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wi ...

s * Exposure, in medicine, poor health or death due to lack of protection from

extreme weather Extreme weather or extreme climate events includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. Often, extreme events are based on a locat ...

or dangerous substances, e.g., from

hypothermia Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans. Symptoms depend on the temperature. In mild hypothermia, there is shivering and mental confusion. In moderate hypothermia, shivering stops and confusion increases. In severe h ...

or sunburn *

Exposure assessment Exposure assessment is a branch of environmental science and occupational hygiene that focuses on the processes that take place at the interface between the environment containing the contaminant of interest and the organism being considered. ...

, in epidemiology and risk assessment *

Exposure therapy Exposure therapy is a technique in behavior therapy to treat anxiety disorders. Exposure therapy involves exposing the target patient to the anxiety source or its context without the intention to cause any danger (desensitization). Doing so is thou ...

, a treatment method for anxiety disorders *

Mere-exposure effect The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. In social psychology, this effect is sometimes called the familiarity principle. The effect ...

, a psychological artefact

Geology and topography

Exposure (heights) Exposure is a climbing and hiking term. Sections of a hiking path or climbing route are described as "exposed" if there is a high risk of injury in the event of a fall because of the steepness of the terrain. If such routes are negotiated without ...

, in climbing and hiking, a terrain likely to cause injury when falling * Exposure, in geology, an occurrence of a rock at the Earth's surface, an

outcrop An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth. Features Outcrops do not cover the majority of the Earth's land surface because in most places the bedrock or superficial ...

Other uses in science and medicine

* Exposure, in physics (in particular

beam Beam may refer to: Streams of particles or energy *Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy **Laser beam *Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles **Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...

experiments or flux measurements), the product of the detector mass times the duration of the experiment, sometimes also multiplied by a measure of the intensity of the incoming flux *

Radiant exposure In radiometry, radiant exposure or fluence is the radiant energy ''received'' by a ''surface'' per unit area, or equivalently the irradiance of a ''surface,'' integrated over time of irradiation, and spectral exposure is the radiant exposure per un ...

, the radiant energy received by a surface per unit area, or equivalently the irradiance of a surface integrated over time of irradiation *

Radiation exposure Radiation is a moving form of energy, classified into ionizing and non-ionizing type. Ionizing radiation is further categorized into electromagnetic radiation (without matter) and particulate radiation (with matter). Electromagnetic radiation con ...

, a measure of the ionization of air due to ionizing radiation from photons, that is, gamma rays and X-rays

Other uses

* Exposure, an insurance company's potential to provide coverage under an

insurance policy In insurance, the insurance policy is a contract (generally a standard form contract) between the insurer and the policyholder, which determines the claims which the insurer is legally required to pay. In exchange for an initial payment, known as ...

* Exposure of the dead, or

sky burial Sky burial (, "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds. It is a specific type of the ...

Indecent exposure Indecent exposure is the deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behavior. Laws and social attitudes regarding indecent exposure vary significantly in different ...

, the display of unclothed parts of the human body that is against local custom and law *

Infant exposure In ancient times, a method of infanticide or at least child abandonment was to leave infants in a wild place, either to die due to hypothermia, hunger, thirst, or animal attack,Justin Martyr, ''First Apology.'' or perhaps to be collected and bro ...

, a form of child abandonment *

Market exposure In finance, market exposure (or exposure) is a measure of the proportion of money invested in the same industry sector. For example, a stock portfolio with a total worth of $500,000, with $100,000 in semiconductor A semiconductor is a materi ...

, a measure of the proportion of money invested in the same industry sector *

Publicity In marketing, publicity is the public visibility or awareness for any product, service, person or organization (company, charity, etc.). It may also refer to the movement of information from its source to the general public, often (but not always) ...

, an activity designed to rouse public interest and gain attention