It featured Jökulsárlón I and II a
series of photograms created by exposing pieces of centuries old glacial ice on photographic paper until they melted away completely.
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.
The original 1998 prints were made from digital negatives
of photograms created by laying long strips of paper onto 8 × 10 inch sheets of black and white photographic paper.
Taken from more than 2,000 magazine pages over a period of four years, this
set of photograms, or «camera-less» photographs, are direct contact prints culled from publications such as Life, Time and Woman's Day.
KM: I've always thought
of photograms as a kind of imprint because unlike a photograph, a photogram records a physical encounter between the subject and the material; the mark of an interaction.
Do not count Adam Fuss's black snakes on an empty bed or the snaky blackness
of his photograms on newsprint.
Since 2005, the artist has been working on a series called The Times, for which he uses front pages from The New York Times as the
basis of photograms and collages.
Liz Nielsen's work joins and adds to the historical
tradition of the photogram — one of the medium's earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds of contemporary art and color photography.
To make the «Type R» print, the twice exposed paper (before it is toned with gold chloride) is photographed with additional leaves, flowers, etc. placed on
top of the photogram.
She acquainted him with the
art of photograms and possibly with photography itself, a medium that came to play an enormous role in his art.
His recent body of work takes photographic paper which he folds, exposes, and dips into chemicals, resulting in a beautiful
version of a photogram that records its past as a three dimensional object.
He even developed special software for his digital abstract «Photograms» which was inspired by Lázsló Moholy - Nagy and Man Ray, the
inventors of the photogram; the technique of laying objects onto photographic paper and exposing it to light.
The inaugural exhibition, Yoga Photograms, features eight life - size works from the pair's recent series
of photogram portraits exploring a range of traditional Sanskrit yoga postures.
Untitled, from 1971, is a
suite of photograms produced by scattering donuts on photographic paper.
Through numerous examples of still life, portraiture, and beyond, we see how Ray constantly experimented with new techniques, pushing photography out of its documentary domain into ethereal, poetic expressions through multiple exposure, solarization, and the particular
brand of photograms he wittily termed «rayography.»
In this new series he works on the
idea of photograms which were played around with by artists such as Man Ray, Moholy - Nagy.
The silhouettes, for instance refer to the
look of a photogram, a kind of filmic mood lighting.»
The resulting marks are
reminiscent of photograms, a cameraless photographic technique developed by early photographers but often associated with experimental 20th century photography.
«Through an economy of means that yields variation within repetition, Webber's minimalist forms reveal the infinite
possibilities of the photogram as both medium and process.
Building on these artists work, Webber has developed a unique approach to the
creation of her photograms, integrating elements of sculpture and drawing while also incorporating chance operations.
Since 2002, Karapetian has been exploring the
form of the photogram creating unique large scale cameraless works that blend performance and photographic process.
The exhibition Thomas Ruff: Lichten at S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium, presents two new series by the German photographer Thomas Ruff: Phg (Photograms, started in 2012), a virtual simulation of the classical
genre of the photogram, and Negative (started in 2014), a series in which Ruff reaches back to photography's roots in the 19th century.
According to Aperture Magazine: Turning away from straight photography in the mid-1990s, «Ruff has taken up a
study of the photogram, updating the form for the digital era by creating his works in a 3 - D digital studio environment and outputting the resulting images in the large scale he tends to favour.»
With the delicate accuracy of a camera lucida drawing and the stark
contrast of a photogram, Becker is adept at utilizing methods of photography; his brand of realism stems from manipulations of photographs taken on Arctic expedition.
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.
American artist Sam Falls also presents an adapted installation featuring half of a site - specific installation including a stained glass window and
set of photograms.
Landscape Portraits is a new
series of photograms in which Oppenheim uses very thin slices of wood as negatives applied directly to a photosensitive surface.
Paris London Hong Kong is proud to present Mirror Lamp Hammer a new series
of photograms by Anthea Behm.
Indian chief - Treachery of the sauks is part of a series
of photograms that depicts Navajo rugs.
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some of the photogram abstract work I can't help but make associations between body, fluid and cellular structures.
Featuring works by leading artists from the 1960s to the present day, the exhibition takes as its starting point Robert Heinecken's seminal series
of photograms Are You Rea, 1964 — 68, as well as works by «Pictures Generation» artists, including Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger and Louise Lawler, who came of age during the media - driven consumer culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The colourful photographs of abstracted forms and planes are reminiscent of Los Angeles - based artist Walead Beshty's Color Curl and Black Curl series
of photograms, in which he exposes photographic paper to different coloured lights.
Robertson will present several bodies of work including a new series
of photograms, tintypes, sketchbook drawings and various ephemera.