Photograms

[lili_mv]

I was wondering how many of you guys have worked on photograms. I'm writing an article about photograms that I'm going to send off to a magazine and would really love to hear from you guys on your experiences in the darkroom.

[Mad Aussie]

What are photograms?

[Mad Aussie]

Looked it up ...

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 negative shadow image varying in tone, depending on the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey.[1]

[casil403]

I googled it...never had heard of it before.
Photogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.photograms.org/

[AcadieLibre]

Photograms although interesting is something of a specialized hobby. One of the first things I learned to do in the dark room at HS when we were bored and looking for cool stuff to do but after that it became a bit repetitious. I think if it is your passion or hobby wonderful but I just found it a bit limiting in what I wanted from the photographic process. I think many photographers have done accidental photograms over the years and not knowing they had actually created a photogram. I hope your article does well, I know there is people who just love this type of darkroom art.

[Marko]

Photograms are very very cool. I too first tried them as a kid...in summercamp. Although A.L. found it limiting, I see endless creative possibilities here.

Here's one from this site by Man Ray. He called them rayographs but it's the same thing.