Photograms/Rayograms
A photogram is a picture made without using a camera. You make a photogram by putting objects onto photographic paper under a light and exposing them for 2 seconds.Sometimes 2 seconds is too long and you may only need 1 second.Areas of paper that have received no light will come put white and if something is transparent or semi-transparent its will come out grey. If you over expose objects they will turn out fully black.There were many photographers that used this method of picture such as Man Ray and Adam fuss. You can use many different materials for photograms such as leaves,keys,earphones,pens and anything else want. Also you want to try and get it prefect so you don't want to many objects but your want things that are different that stand out and make people look at your photograms and think there interesting.
Man Ray
Man rays work is not made with a camera or a lens It was made by exposing a piece of photographic paper to the light of a bare bulb, which cast onto the paper the shadows of intervening objects. The blackest areas are those that were exposed longest to the light; the whitest areas occur where no light struck the paper. Man Ray made this picture by exposing the paper at least three times, casting, in turn, shadows of the two heads, the hands, and the two vaselike rectangular forms.
This is my favourite Man Ray photogram because it looks different from his other works. I like this because he uses something different in a lot of his others you see the same things being repeated in his work and they start to look very simliar. Another reason i like this is because it has one main feature it doesn't have lots of little things all around it has one big main object then a couple of little things around. The composition is really good the way he set out the film looks cool.
Moholy Nagy
I like this photogram because you can tell it must of have taken him a long time to do and prefect it because its so clear and well thought out. Another reason i like this one is because it is creative and its different from the normal photograms you see from most artists. Also it has a lot going on in one picture you have two hands and all things overlapping so you can't tell clearly what some things are but others are clearer and easier to identify.
When photograms were first invented in the early 19th century he was a painter at the time. Technically, Moholy-Nagy used two methods of production: the first consisted of placing the objects directly on a special photographic paper and exposing the whole thing to natural or artificial light: after a time the contours and shadows of the object left light surfaces on a dark background on the support. The second took place in a dark-room -where the evolution of the forms is no longer visible in real time- and the result could only be observed after developing and fixing the test. Throughout those experiments, Moholy-Nagy tried to capture light from the best angles and intensities and make it a plastic material in its own right. To do so, he no longer used opaque objects but transparent, translucent or diaphanous ones, such as crystal, glass, liquids, veils, sieves, often superimposed to accentuate the effects of the contrast of grains and textures.