A
photogram is a picture made by placing objects directly onto a light-sensitive material, like photographic paper, and then exposing it to light. The objects block the light, creating a silhouette-like image. It is a way of creating art without using a camera.
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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.
Artist Klea McKenna describes her Rain Studies as «an ongoing series of unique gelatin
silver photograms of rain made outdoors at night... I have always paid attention to rainfall and how weather affects the land, but by making this work my awareness has been heightened.
Lisa Oppenheim Landscape Portraits (Birdseye Maple and Cherry)(Version I), 2015 Two silver
gelatin photograms in Birdseye Maple and Cherry frames 38 5/8 x 50 1/4 inches; 98.1 x 127.6 cm (overall) 38 5/8 x 24 5/8 inches; 98.1 x 62.5 cm (each frame)
The activity of making
photograms in the darkroom is a performance, and the resulting prints chronicle her actions.
2007 black and white
photogram on gelatin silver paper 171 x 106.5 cm (67 3/8 x 41 7/8 in) This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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.
Moholy - Nagy (1895 - 1946), who introduced experimental photography to the Bauhaus, created
photograms by placing diverse materials directly on photographic paper and then exposed and fixed to create unique, mysterious and evocative compositions.
In this body of work, Oppenheim
makes photograms from paper - thin slices of wood, using the same arboreal species to frame the images.
A series called Flowers (2004 - 11) also was made without a camera,
as photograms with colored filters that are arranged in way that makes the prints look like watercolors with light radiating through their leaves and blossoms.
Shape of Sound: Alien Drumscape VIII, 2014 64 x 24 inch unique chromogenic
photogram from constructed negative, metallic
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.
British - born photographer Adam Fuss is known for his enigmatic photographs, which he creates using
photogram techniques.
These
unique photogram prints are made in the darkroom by a process which orients the paper vertically in relation to the enlarger above.
In 1986 Welling began a series of
color photograms made with shadows, titled «Degradés.»
The MoMA show will open with their collaborations — namely, the so - called «blueprints,» life -
size photograms in which their bodies appear as white silhouettes bathed against a Prussian blue background.
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.
Untitled 2008 - 2016 Enamel paint, acrylic paint, mesh fabric, collaged
colour photograms on paper 43.9 x 38.8 x 3.8 cm / 17.3 x 15.3 x 1.5 in framed
Shape of Sound: Alien Drumscape IV, 2014 64 x 24 inch unique
chromogenic photogram from constructed negative, metallic
This negotiation with orientation also carries into the two large body - scaled
photogram works included in the exhibition.
The shapes of Liz Deschenes»
new photograms for both exhibitions arrive from diagrams on visual perception from exhibition design to stereographic viewing.
Falls» has produced large
scale photograms using powdered pigments that stain and dye vast swathes of canvas, capturing the transition of seasons, the passage of time and weather.
In his Heinecken Studies, Lazarus created a series of color
photograms using a portion of the cremated remains of the late conceptual artist Robert Heinecken.
Titles
like Photogram New York (Colorado) or Salt Flats Cement Dip instantly announce a hybrid.
1996 New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Human Nature:
Solar Photograms by Martha Madigan, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Heinecken's
photogram process turns this question back on itself, demanding the viewer to recognize subliminal, if not obtrusively implicit, paradigms of consumption and objectification present within mass - circulated images.
Other contemporary pieces in the exhibition depicted deceased bodies in more fragmentary ways —
including photograms made from cremated remains and photographs that revealed swatches of bedding, carpet, and upholstery marked by bodies that passed away on those surfaces.
Later she created
abstract photograms in her darkroom, creating imaginary scenes often with just the light of a kitchen match to expose the images.
After he moved to Los Angeles, Welling
produced photograms such as his series called Torsos 2005/2008, which was shown at the Whitney Biennial, in New York, in 2008.
The photographic process of both the gold - toned printing - out -
paper photograms as well as the «Type R» prints comprises several steps.
Various
photograms referencing photographer Adam Fuss feature ephemeral water ripples and small air and sea creatures.
Confronted with four equally wide, monumental multi-part works that span the length of entire gallery walls, the viewer is here immediately engaged in a rhythmic progression through space, as he or she passes by a succession of thin strips of silver -
toned photograms positioned at a constant interval from one another.
Constructivismes, (A Visual Essay) at Andrea Rosen Gallery, curated by Olivier Renaud Clement, featured Kasten's early drawings on
photograms alongside Kasmir Malevich and Burgoyne Diller.
This catalog includes reproductions of the repurposed Lewis Hine photographs and Landscape
Portrait photograms juxtaposed with poetry, an essay, and an interview with the artist.
Carey: The 20th century art movements — Abstract Expressionism, Minimal, Conceptual Art — give my
experimental photogram work a context in the 21st century, from this camera-less method at the dawn of the medium in the 19th century to fresh interpretations in the present.
From traditional and non-traditional paintings on canvas, to sculpture, video and
photogram collages, this body of work transcends historical perceptions of abstraction and challenges the boundaries of the genre.
Seeing the totality of Welling's work, in a lucid installation by the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, clarifies connections such as those between the New Abstractions, (1998 - 2000),
large photograms of deep black bars on white paper, recalling Franz Kline paintings, and the rigor of his straightforward pictures of modern architecture such as Maison de Verre (2009).
September 2014: I meet Walead Beshty at London's Barbican Centre, where he is working on his commission for the Curve gallery, an installation of over 12,000 blue
cyanotype photograms titled A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter - Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench.
His pinhole photographs and
cameraless photograms, executed with technical rigor, are often concerned with temporality, memory, regeneration, and death.
Various photograms referencing photographer Adam Fuss feature ephemeral water ripples and small air and sea...
For these artists, the darkroom is a laboratory, where a renewed passion for
camera-less photograms, solarization, and photography's capacity to record light is realized.
The slightly concave
photograms shown at 36 Orchard Street refer to Marey's diagrams, which record human steps with the use of photosensitive paper.
The result
recalls photograms wherein individual objects are placed on photosensitive paper to produce images using light alone.
Working simultaneously in a range of mediums, Conner created hybrids of painting and sculpture, film and performance, drawing and printing, including bodies of works on paper utilizing drawing and collage and two important photographic bodies of work, including a haunting group of black - and - white life - sized
photograms called ANGELS.