Photograms

Mood Board On Photograms 



 
Step to step guide on how to create a photogram.

1. Set up all your materials on the work space provided.

2. Switch off the lights in the room making sure no one will enter, as soon as the lights are off switch on  safe lights for visibility.

3. Then you need to take the light sensitive paper and lay out your materials as creative as possible.

4. As soon as you have your materials in the way you want them, get a light source and expose your picture for 5-10 seconds.

5. Once you have done this you are ready to develop your image. To do this you need to place it in the developer bath for 1 minuet as soon as the minuet is over your need to take the picture out carefully with tongs hold it for a couple of seconds so the chemical can drip off.

6. Once the chemical has dripped of slowly place it into the stop bath for 30 seconds once the 30 seconds is over you need to hold it for a couple of seconds again for the chemicals to drip off.

7. When you have done this you need to place the photo into the fix bath for 2 minuets. This is to make sure all the chemicals are off.

8. Once this is done you are able to switch on the lights then you need to soak it in warm water for 5-10 minuets.

9. Your photogram is now complete!

History on photograms

Photograms were used in the 20th century. Different photographers used different names for photograms such as man ray who used to call them rayographs. William Henry Fox Talbot called them photogenic drawings. Some of the first photographic imagery were made using photograms. Different photographers used a variation of objects to create these pictures. 

Man Ray - Born on august 27th 1890. He was an American modern artist. When May Ray did photograms he used to call them rayographs because of his name. Man Ray produced different types of work but he mainly called himself a painter. He is one of the well known photographers and has done some eye-catching images. He became popular for his artistic work and then moved on to becoming a fashion photographer. 















These 2 photograms were taken by man ray in 1925. 

These 2 images although they are very simple and haven't got a lot of materials in them they are extremely eye-catching especially the one on the left this is because he has laid out his materials to create this pattern in such a artistic way. The one on the right is also incredible you can tell he has put a lot of thought into it however did not use many materials. Which just shows you don't need to use very many materials to get your work to look amazing and stand out. In the second image you can see that this had to of taken a lot of time and effort to be able to get this the way he wanted it to look. He has made it look like a rose whether this was his intention or not. Also because of the way the materials have been laid out the image just pops out at you and just makes you want to look at it for longer. Subjectively I think that both of the images are eye catching for different reasons they are both very simple and don't have many materials in them which makes them more interesting and intriguing.





This image which Man Ray created was done in 1925. 













William Henry Fox Talbot-   Born on the 11 February 1800. He was a British inventor and a photography pioneer, he invented the calotype process. He has been awarded 2 awards one which is the royal medal which is given by the queen which was in 1838 and the Rumford medal in 1842 which is for an outstandingly important discovery.



Objectively this is one of Talbot's pieces of a photogram it was made in 1839 and is called Photogenic Drawing of Flower Specimens. You can see that he has used two types of flowers in this photogram and although it isn't very technical it still looks very effective. He has arranged the flowers in a way in which they look very decorative and although he hasn't used the whole page he has made sure that the one flower goes all the way across from one side to the other to fill up his space. You can see the detail in the flowers which shows they have exposed the light for the correct amount of time to get this effect.  

 

 


This photogram by Talbot is called Leaves Of Orchidea and was created in april 1839.











This photogram by Talbot is called Buckler Fern and was created in 1839.










Anna Atkins- Born 16th march 1799. Some people say that Atkins was the first female photographer but this cannot be confirmed because there was another female photographer also. Anna Atkins also created the cyanotype, a cyanotype is a picture with a blue tint which is what most of Atkins photograms look like.



 



This photogram by Anna Atkins is called Anatomized Leaves and was created in 1854. As you can see from the picture she is showing a variation of different types of leaves. You can tell that she has tried to cover the whole page, and she has done the photogram so you are able to see all the detail in the leaves instead of a faint outline or just a shadow. This is what makes the photogram look intriguing. To do this she had to get the right amount of light to expose onto the leaves. 







This photogram by Anna Atkins is called Poppy and was created in 1852.











This photogram by Anna Atkins is called Aspidium Jamaica and was created in 1852.











Emilio Amero- Born in 1901 and died in 1976.














Objectively t
his is one of Emilio Amero's photograms which was created in 1940. You can see in this image he has based it on the sea and the beach. In my opinion it really stands out because you don't immediately see the boat inside of the bottle you have to look more in-depth. It is a very easy image however he has made it so it looks complex by the boat in the bottle. He has also put shells around the main image to follow through with his topic this gives the image more life and shows he was thinking about all of his image and not just the main feature. As you can see also the bottle which the boat is in isn't completely at a straight angle it is slightly tilted this effect has been used because when boats are in the sea they are not completely still they sway a little so this is what Amero is trying to portray by doing this. You can see all the detail in this image and it has been thought about a lot which is what makes it so interesting. Which is why this is one of my favourite photograms the theme is the sea and the beach and he has carried this through all of his image. But the most intriguing part is the boat inside of the bottle it really gets you thinks how he has done this and makes you question it.

 




This photogram by Emilio Amero is called wine and hair and was created in 1932.












This photogram by Emilio Amero is called glasses.














These are some examples of my own photograms. To do these I had to find different types of materials which I thought would look good together. Then what we had to do was go into the dark room and layout our pieces of equipment on the photographic paper then we had to expose light onto the photographic paper for about 5 seconds. Then we had to develop our images. We started with the test strips and then we did some bigger ones as you can see in the image. I got most of my ideas from the pictures in my mood board and then just added a few of my own into it swell.





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