Lightworks: The Art of the Photogram
The Art of the Photogram brings together a diverse selection of unique work from artists from the first half of the 20th century to the present day, united by their use of the photogram for creative purposes.
Photograms are a camera-less technique for image making, and produce a 1:1 representation of the objects laid upon a light sensitive material. The resulting image is a negative shadow that varies in tone dependent on the transparency of the objects placed on the light sensitive paper to make the photogram. Unlike photographs, photograms do not provide a sense of time or space, they abstract images and objects from their original context, suspend a traditional reading of the image, and retain an air of the mysterious.
BERENICE ABBOTT
Untitled (Science) I, 1958-61
Vintage photogram, gelatin silver print
18 x 14.5 cm
WERNER BISCHOF
Streams, 1941
Vintage photogram, gelatin silver print
18.3 x 24.8 cm
ERWIN BLUMENFELD
Untitled, NY, 1953
Vintage photogram, gelatin silver print, printed 1953
26.3 x 32.2 cm
RICHARD CALDICOTT
Untitled #11, 2015
B/W photogram and paper negative
7 x 10 in.
TOM FELS
Arbor 6-15-11 #2
Unique cyanotype print
60.5 cm x 91 cm
GYÖRGY KEPES
Untitled photogram, 1979
Vintage photogram, gelatin silver print
20 x 16 in.
FLORIS NEUSÜSS
Tellerbild 95, 1966
Vintage photogram
85 x 55.5 cm
FLORIS NEUSÜSS
Kör K 81, 1968
Vintage photogram
84 x 59 cm
LAZSLO MOHOLY-NAGY
Photogram, 1925
Vintage photogram, gelatin silver print
23.9 x 17.9 cm
E.L.T. MESENS
La Lumiere deconcertante, 1926
Vintage photocollage and photogram
27 x 19 cm
MAN RAY
Untitled, 1926
Gelatin silver print, printed 1963
29 x 21 cm