What are photograms?
Photograms are images made without a camera by putting objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material e.g photographic paper, The normal result is a negative shadow image like the pictures below. Photograms were used a lot in the 20th century by a number of photographers. Man Ray called them "Rayographs". His style was based on the surprising effects of negative imagery
Our year 10 GCSE class tried out photograms, the picture on the left is one of the ones that I made. We got some photographic paper and equipment to place on the paper e.g tapes, photos and any other random objects. (Even our hands). Once we were happy with where everything was laid out we would expose it to light for 10 seconds then place the picture in some water and leave it there for a minute and then leave it to dry and eventually our photo would turn out like the examples below.
Our year 10 GCSE class tried out photograms, the picture on the left is one of the ones that I made. We got some photographic paper and equipment to place on the paper e.g tapes, photos and any other random objects. (Even our hands). Once we were happy with where everything was laid out we would expose it to light for 10 seconds then place the picture in some water and leave it there for a minute and then leave it to dry and eventually our photo would turn out like the examples below.
Above are the photos that I created
I was really happy with the way my pictures came out, I think that it worked really well. The first photogram I did came out much better then the second one that I did, but I am still pleased with the final results of my pictures. I think that my second picture didn't show very well because I moved the picture slightly in the process of when it was being exposed to the light.