RAYOGRAPHS BY MAN-RAY, THE FIRST PHOTOGRAM
If you make your own DIGITAL RAYOGRAPH (photogram) you will earn EXTRA CREDIT
If you make your own PHOTOGRAM you will earn EXTRA CREDIT
How to make a photogram with SUN SENSITIVE PAPER if you want to try for fun at home. (if you make one, bring it in to share for EXTRA CREDIT)
Man Ray made his "rayographs" without a camera by placing objects-such as the thumbtacks, coil of wire, and other circular forms used here-directly on a sheet of photosensitized paper and exposing it to light. Man Ray had photographed everyday objects before, but these unique, visionary images immediately put the photographer on par with the avant-garde painters of the day. Hovering between the abstract and the representational, the rayographs revealed a new way of seeing that delighted the Dadaist poets who championed his work, and that pointed the way to the dreamlike visions of the Surrealist writers and painters who followed.
ART MOVEMENTS TO CONSIDER:
Dadaists were anti-war and wanted to break down the barriers between art and life. They did this by creating a new type of poetry called dada poetry. Dada poems use nonsense words, which forces readers to question what they are reading and make up their meanings for the words on the page.
