A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used.

Learn about how to achieve different effects and the equipment involved, including making camera-less photographs. A photogram is a photographic image that is made without a camera. Objects are...

Nov 25, 2020 · A photogram is a unique cameraless art form that involves the placement of objects onto sensitised paper with the action of light. Stephen McNeill shares his experiences with this age-old process, along with some images and tips. The technique of creating a photographic image without the use of a camera is as old as photography itself.

Jan 9, 2001 · A photogram takes the principles of photography right back to its roots using light to paint pictures. The principle is simple - you expose a sheet of light sensitive emulsion, in our example...

There are several ways of making cameraless images – such as photograms, radiographs, luminograms and chemigrams. "The photogram ... which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography. It allows us to capture the patterned interplay of light on a sheet of sensitised paper without recourse to any apparatus."

A photogram is an image made by setting objects directly onto a light-sensitive surface and exposing it to light. This cameraless photography technique gives a sort of a photographic picture, but it displays tones in order opposite from the one seen in reality.

Photograms, as exemplified by most of the descriptions in this work and the literature cited, are creative images made directly on either black and white or conventional color print photosensitive paper. Another aspect of using the photogram process includes mixed photographic prints/photograms.

The technique of creating photographic prints without using a camera (photograms) is as old as photography itself – but emerged again in various avant-garde contexts in the early 1920s. Artist Man Ray refined and personalised the technique to such an extent that the new prints eventually carried his name ‘ rayographs ’.

How to create a photogram. This post explains how to make your own photogram. The technique harks back to the origins of photography, one of the first means of creating an image or recording a copy of a document was to create a photogram – also referred to as Rayographs after Man Ray.

What is a Photogram/Rayograph? Photograms or Rayographs are camera-less images created by placing objects on a photo sensitive surface and exposing them to light. Where the object touches the surface it will protect it from the light, leaving a white or pale grey impression (depending on its opacity).