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 one’s who paved the way….
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Christian Schad
7. What are the defining qualities of Christian Schad’s work? (What do these images have in common?)
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Man Ray8. 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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Markus Amm - 1999
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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