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Here is a close-up of my second photography homework assignment... to make a collage out of at least five photograms. The scissors are "squeezing" a jar on it's side full of alcohol with a blood worm with a distended stomach (the bulbous part)... Kiff and I used blood worms while fishing for striped bass in Maine and thought the bloodworms were cool, so we put one in alcohol and it's stomach distended... or maybe just its' head... I wish the four teeth showed up. You can see the legs really well, though.
Best seen as large as possible!
What is a photogram? Well, it's where you put objects or an object on black and white photo paper and expose it to light and then develop it. Some people had themes for their work... mine was just random stuff pasted together.
Photograms using enlarged leaves.
Produced as part of my 'Primitive' Photography Project;
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Photogram made using plastic whale and colored saran wrap.
Made by exposing a sheet of photo paper, with the whale, "bubbles," and "sand" on top of crumpled blue saran wrap.
A digital photograph of a darkroom print.
its exactly what you see.
for this print i opened my original image in paint and fliped (inverted) the colours
A photogram is a photographic image made (without a camera) by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The result is a silhouetted image varying in darkness based on the transparency of the objects used, with areas of the paper that have not received any light appearing light and those that have appearing dark, according to the laws of photosensitivity. The image obtained is hence a negative and the effect is often quite similar to an X-Ray. This method of imaging is perhaps most prominently attributed to Man Ray and his exploration of rayographs. Others who have experimented with the technique include László Moholy-Nagy, Christian Schad (who called them "Schadographs"), Imogen Cunningham and even Pablo Picasso. For more information click at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogram
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This is quite a random photogram that I did just to try out the technique of photograms. (placing objects on top of photographic paper then exposing it to the light). We weren't given much time to find objects, which is why there are coffee stirrers and leaves :s
This is a photogram, which is created by laying objects directly on photo paper and exposing the paper to light. The items cast "shadows" on the paper which go undeveloped and create this negative image.
Photograam layering i created at the begining of my Photography As course using different and the same Photograms to create new ones using inverted photograms to layer to create the effect.
Contact photogram from line art on tracing paper from this digital photo -> www.flickr.com/photos/pathlost/2818553061/in/photostream/
Studio 26 - inspired by... Anna Atkins. Cyanotype photograms.
Here's how it works: In a darkish room, I mix my two solutions together (Photographers' Formulary, Liquid Cyanotype kit, available from B&H in the US). Then I coat the paper with even strokes and let it dry. In low light, assemble the objects on the dried paper, expose in bright sunshine (2min45sec in Boston). Bring in immediately, develop in white vinegar for 30 sec, wash for 1 min in water, oxidize in 0.3% hydrogen peroxide solution for 30 sec, then gently agitate in clean water for 30min. Dry and press. Time consuming, not very reproducible - and a ton of fun!
Left image is a quick photo after sun exposure - you can see the shadows my objects were throwing (lighter greenish-grey color). Right is dried print.
Anna Atkins was a pioneer of photograms and learned about cyanotypes from Fox Talbot. She is often credited with publishing the first photo books, for example a scientific treatise on algae, as limited edition tomes with cyanotype photograms. I've always admired her work - scientific accuracy and elegant, deceptively simplistic beauty were married perfectly in her photograms. So when I took a workshop on cyanotyping, I was hoping to emulate her.
Alas, crustaceans and mollusks pose problems due to their rather three-dimensional form. It is impossible to weigh them down with a glass plate for good contact, and the bright sun you need also casts shadows that distort the simple shapes. Pretty soon into my photogram session yesterday morning, I was faced with either simply copying Atkins by using dried/pressed ferns or algae, or to abandon a rigorous scientific approach to focus more on her use of spatial arrangements for a simple beauty.
These are some photograms I made while working on a photography communications project. None of these will probably make it to my final project, but I do think they're pretty cool lookin'.
I won't spoil it for you by telling you the objects I used in each, but I'm sure you can figure it out for most of them. ;o)