Photograms

Purpose:

• To learn and understand the history of Photograms;

• To demonstrate an understanding of basic darkroom procedures;

• To use creative problem-solving skills to create effective and interesting photograms, using black, white, & gray values

To create a successful and interesting photogram, it's important to understand how objects will show up depending on their transparency, especially when layering objects, which is something I sort of struggled with. For example, if something is completely opaque but has a transparent object over it, the opaque object will most likely cover up the transparent one. In order for a photogram to be interesting, it must have several shades of gray caused by the combination of opaque and transparent objects. It's important to include a variety of objects with different textures, which is something I found as one of my strengths when reflecting on my photograms. For instance, in the first photogram, there are several combined textures between the tissue paper and shells. A challenge I found with creating photograms in the dark room was that it was very hard to see what I was doing due to the lighting. It was also hard to create the image having no preview of what it would look like until the photogram was fully developed on the paper. But I found it one of my strengths to change the setting of the objects accordingly using the results of my previous photogram.