Making a Photogram

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Making photograms includes parts of photographic processing, rendering, fixing, stopping and washing, along with controlling the exposure of the photographic paper. 

Photograms are usually produced by an artist or photographer placing items with, sometimes unique, properties over a page or part of photographic paper, these items may be glass, steel, translucent or opaque, allowing for light to pass through and create effects on a page. The exposure of photograms ranges from less than a second to a few seconds depending on the enlarger's light levels.

Photographic paper refers to light-sensitive paper, there are many different types of photographic paper, some which are light sensitive and display in black and white, black and white with a blue 'cold' tone, 

cyanotype or 'blueprint' papers which display in cyan colours/ blues, 

chlorobromide papers which are quite sensitive to light and are used for enlarging, 

chloride papers which are relatively insensitive to light and are used for contact printing

colour papers which display in colours and specifically ilfochrome was used due to its high-resilience and accurate colour-replication 

A famous photogram artist was Man Ray, he actually called his photograms a rayograph, he used black and white photographic paper to create his photograms, these photograms displayed many random things and objects.



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