Photograms

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Photograms

• Directions Answer the questions listed on a
  separate piece of paper, and turn in when
  completed.

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The History

• The photogram technique is at least as old as the
  existence of photosensitive surfaces.
• The real breakthrough for the photogram
  constitutes the discovery of x-rays by Conrad
  Röntgen.
• In the arts, the photogram was explored rather
  late, after the first World War.
• The name photogram was introduced and
  established by László Moholy-Nagy in 1925.
• With respect to Christian Schad and Man Ray who
  used the technique before Moholy-Nagy, sometimes
  the technique is also called schadography or
  rayograph.

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Questions

• 1. What is a photogram?
• 2. How do you make a photogram?
• 3. Who invented the photogram process?

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Basically.

• The photogram is a highly differentiated shadow
  picture fixed directly on a light sensitive
  surface.

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Actually

• Almost everybody gets in touch with the photogram
  for the first time during a check-up with his
  doctor
• An x-ray is essentially a photogram.
• It is a fixed shadow of a three-dimensional
  object on a light-sensitive material.

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You know..

• Conceptually there is a controversy as to whether
  the photogram is merely an experimental
  camera-less branch of photography, or if it
  constitutes its own medium.

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Questions

• 4. Do you think a photogram is a type of
  photograph, or is it a separate art form?
• 5. Why do you think so?

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6. What do you need to make a photogram?
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The ones who paved the way.
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Christian Schad
7. What are the defining qualities of Christian
Schads work? (What do these images have in
common?)
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Man Ray
8. Man Ray is the most famous photogram artist,
and was part of the Dada art movement. What is
Dadaism? (Look it up on the computer!)
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Examples of Photograms

• Other artists

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Emilio Amero - 1932
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Markus Amm - 1999
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Marcel Bovis 1945-50
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Nino Migliori
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Gyorgy Kepes
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Art Criticism
9. Which photogram artist did you like the best?
Why? 10. Complete a 4 part art criticism (4
paragraphs using the handout) about your
favorite photogram image.
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Artists and images found on

• www.photograms.net
• Look up other photogram artists on this website
  for inspiration for your own work