In this body of work, Oppenheim
makes photograms from paper - thin slices of wood, using the same arboreal species to frame the images.
They began at the instigation of Emmet Gowin, a Princeton colleague, who thought we could shine light through my mylar drawings to
make photograms.
Ms. Weil had been
making photograms since her precocious girlhood, and she mentioned how annoying it is to find herself described in articles as «Bob's helper.»
Camera - based film negatives are enlarged onto light - sensitive paper that is partially obstructed by other materials (the technique used to
make photograms).
The pictures and experiences that are encountered through the process of
making a photogram are invariably individual.
I was inspired to
make this photogram by two things: finding in the New York Times a documentary photograph of a house blown apart by a hurricane, and thinking about the notion of shape as form in high Modernist painting.
Initially, working with the photographer Emmet Gowin, Aschheim
made photograms directly from her translucent drawings, a kind of X-ray.
Not exact matches
Her
photograms —
made directly from her translucent drawings — take her ideas further through the addition of drawn images and transmutations
made during multiple exposures.
The first mid-career survey dedicated to Deschenes's work, this exhibition will feature 20 years of her art, including explorations of various photographic technologies, rich and nuanced work with
photograms (a type of photographic image
made without a camera), and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site's unique features.
LONDON - Presenting works
made between 2008 and 2017 in various media, including sculpture, painting, film, installation,
photograms and posters, the exhibition asserts McElheny's view that «reconstructing history» can be a creative process itself and that aesthetics are always political.
These 5 x 7 ″
photograms made from paper that expired in September of 1911, were priced at around $ 7,500 and are already sold out and not surprisingly.
These find counterparts in a series of
photograms made using reams of outmoded, industrial «Phototype»: long film negatives which have entire font families printed on them.
In this video, 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Liz Deschenes discusses her work with
photograms, a type of photographic image
made without a camera.
Gripping in its complexity, it's composed of large - scale photographic paper that she imprinted with square
photograms (most likely
made with Plexi, a staple of her later work) then stretched, still wet, over a canvas screen and then drew atop.
The background, selected for its resemblance to a generic abstract or experimental
photogram, perhaps from the 1920s, is an image
made by chance, a piece of light - sensitive commercial photographic paper marked by random accidents of storage — and here digitally scanned.
Here, gelatin silver photographs and
photograms — taken from the artist's personal archive
made over the years and used both altered or unmodified — are layered into compositions, along with pieces of sheer black or tan fabric that allude to women's hosiery.
László Moholy - Nagy, Untitled (Self and Lucia), modern silver gelatin copy print of a lost
photogram of 1926,
made from a vintage glass copy negative (Hattula Moholy - Nagy).
Through carefully curated pairings, like Man Ray
photograms coupled with Louis Lozowick pen and ink drawings, the Whitney
makes a strong case for the power of thoughtful juxtapositions.
In 1910 Kandinsky
made the first modern abstract painting; in 1911, the Italian Futurists Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna
made the first abstract films; in 1913, inspired by the Futurists, Wyndham Lewis
made his first Vorticist abstractions; in 1915, Malevich painted his «Black Square»; in 1916, Mondrian and Van Doesburg founded De Stijl; and in 1921, Man Ray
made his first
photograms.
Beshty and his assistant are completing the final
photograms: holed up in a temporary studio hidden behind the Barbican's main gallery, they coat objects
made from paper and card with the light - sensitive cyanotype solution.
DE In some of the
photogram abstract work I can't help but
make associations between body, fluid and cellular structures.
When he
makes filmy
photograms of filmy soap bubbles, what Man Ray called Rayograms, he crosses his medium with his message.
Beshty's latest show, «Open Source» at Petzel Gallery in New York, contains new works by the Los Angeles - based artist, including large - scale
photograms, sculptures
made from disemboweled office machines and pierced flatscreens, and new copper works.
Most of Heinecken's work consisted of
photograms, exposures
made on photographic paper without a camera.
In 1980, while searching for a way to
make more dynamic drawings, she adopted the classic black and white
photogram technique which she has used ever since.
These unique
photogram prints are
made in the darkroom by a process which orients the paper vertically in relation to the enlarger above.
LV: In your second «umbrella concept» Struck by light, you present a collection of works
made with the color
photogram technique.
Consider two Heinecken
photograms made within a few years of each other.
This great variety, not only in form but also in style — he moved easily from
photograms to de Chirico — esque dreamscapes to painterly abstraction — has
made Schawinsky difficult to place in standard histories of the Bauhaus, if not in art history more generally.
Chuck Kelton
makes chemograms and
photograms inside the darkroom; transforming light, chemistry and paper into abstract landscapes.
The exhibition included over 100 pieces
made from 1986 until 2013, embracing a wide range of works, from his earliest series to
Photograms, cliché - verres, to the new, digitally manipulated color photographs.
The
photograms that are created reveal a silhouetted image that varies in darkness due to the opacity of the objects ultimately creating a delicate amalgamation between the natural and man
made world.
Her films have a pictorial feel, while her photographic works are reminiscent of sculptures: scratched lines
make up her projected images, and pieces of film strips appear on her
photograms and collages -LSB-...].
Made without a camera, Fuss's
photograms and daguerreotypes are distilled to the fundamental components of the medium: light, subject matter, and photo - sensitive paper or metal.
That direct contact, that irrefutable physical evidence of the artist's presence, finds what might be its earliest antecedent in the series of full - body
photograms that Rauschenberg and his then - wife, Susan Weil,
made of themselves on blueprint paper (1949 — 1951)(fig. 17).
At Neven - DuMont - Straße, the exhibition «Ma - re Mount» brings together new
photograms by Deschenes alongside works by Carl Andre, Richard Prince and R.H. Quaytmen, all
made or selected especially for this show.
In 1986 Welling began a series of color
photograms made with shadows, titled «Degradés.»
Many of the images were
made without a camera using photosensitive paper, found objects, and low - fi processes to create the
photograms.
More recently, Boelens has
made a series of large - scale
photograms, using various objects or textiles that are folded repeatedly over the duration of the exposure and create radiant fields of color.
Made in an analogue color darkroom, and build up from multiple exposures on light sensitive paper, the prints combine projected Photoshop files of digitized brush strokes with traditional
photogram techniques where objects are placed directly on the image surface.
They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such as
photograms and photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms of archival and historical reconstitution
made since 2000.
Four elongated
photograms made by exposing photographic paper to moonlight are mounted on Dibond and hung on the walls in a symmetrical fashion that mimics both 19th - century stereoscopy and the receding lines of linear perspective.
It is accompanied by a selection of posters advertising Alexander Korda's 1935 science - fiction movie, «Things to Come,» for which the artist designed some special effects, and a well -
made three - channel video projection by Czech - born, Chicago - based artist Jan Tichy, inspired by Moholy - Nagy's abstract
photograms.
Pioneering his method with Talbot's
photogram (non-color), Atkins created images in Prussian blue that included her handwriting, thus introducing text and image; she also
made the first photo - book (1843).
It is impossible to create the same image twice
making each of my
photograms unique.
The first:
photograms,
makes its world debut, and depicts abstract shapes, lines, and forms that were
made using a custom built software.
His «camera-less»
photograms were
made in the darkroom by arranging and exposing objects directly on top of light - sensitive paper; juxtaposing geometric, industrial, typographic and organic forms to create images that are poised between abstraction and representation.
By the 1930s, Man Ray's adaptation of the
photogram (into what he termed «rayographs») had removed the camera's shutter from the picture -
making process altogether.
And, while MoMA's site explains that Man Ray claimed to have invented the
photogram (christening it the Rayogram) in Paris in 1921 — although the practice had existed since the earliest days of photography — less than a year later, Moholy - Nagy was
making his own
photograms.
Degrades, (1986 - 2006) glowing color
photograms, are among the many works in this exhibition
made without a camera by exposing the chromogenic paper to color filters and enlarger.