photogram
- noun
- /ˈfoʊtəˌɡræm/
- Specialized
- The wholly abstract photogram, in its manipulation of the reflection and absorption of light
Examples
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The artist's use of the techniques of multiple exposure, photogram, and contact printing results in a blurry temporal collapse in which shots taken at different times are now made to coinhabit the same image.
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I will take photograms of your bioelectric activity as Evey leaves your body forever.
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You can tell him all about thejourney, and... you can even send him a photogram.
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This photogram was taken at the magnetic North Pole... in Svalbard... kingdom of the ice bears.
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I may have ripped The Lesbian Love Ethic out of this book to use in a photogram collaboration with Anna.
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The creation of the Journal was not without controversy, and it was attacked in the Photogram newsletter: "Its destiny is obscured by the fact that those behind it seem to have no clear-cut ideas of its purpose and functions."
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Lissitzky had ample opportunity to practice the production of such disorienting effects, as an entire series of photograms to be used as Pelikan carbon-paper ads makes evident.
Academic text (2000) -
You Don't Need A Camera by Onas C. Scandrette, FPSA Creating photograms—equipment, materials, and how-to No. 13.
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The strangeness of the image, and thus its powerful hold on the viewer as a potential customer, is bound up with the tension between mechanical reproduction (the mass-produced Pelikan logo, the photogram technique itself) and traditional writing (manual instrument, writing fluid).
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The artist created a stunning photogram by placing leaves on light-sensitive paper and exposing it to sunlight.
Surface Forms
Morphology
photogram = photo + gram
The word is built from classical elements meaning roughly 'light/photo' and 'record/image', but the specific camera-less photographic technique is not fully predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Photogram comes from photo meaning 'light' and -gram meaning 'drawing' or 'something written', as in telegram. So a photogram is like a 'light drawing' made by placing objects on photo paper and letting light hit it, without using a camera.