Neusüss has experimented with the primal immediacy of the photogram since the 1960s. He was initially drawn to the process of creating photographs without a camera through the early experiments of Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray - the photograms they made in the 1920s were the first examples of such work being made within an artistic context - and has continued to push the medium beyond the boundaries between photography, painting and construction ever since.

A photogram is a photographic image made by ‘painting’ with light directly onto the surface of photographic paper or film, or by placing objects on it before exposing it to light. The result is a ghostly silhouetted ‘negative’ image, which varies in darkness depending on the transparency of the objects and, more obviously, the amount of light used. Neusüss often makes his allusive images using a brush, rag or sponge dipped in developer and wiped over the picture surface; and sometimes he leaves the prints unfixed so the tones and colours continually change after the event, allowing the photographic process to continue beyond the darkroom.

Born in 1937, Neusüss studied printmaking before turning to photography. He was an influential teacher in Germany and recently retired as Professor in Experimental Photography at the University of Kassel, where he had taught since 1971.

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