Man Ray

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."

From my photogram experiments in the dark room, Man Ray is an artist which shows his own trial and errors from film photography. He himself experimented with photograms, he produced his first one in 1921.
He claimed that he discovered this technique through another accident in the darkroom, it seems like that his exploration was prompted by a fellow artist.
Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painted above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Aswell as being noted for his photograms, which he named after himself 'rayograms'.



Man Ray is a perfect artist example of using the dark room to produce a different style of images. Being in the dark room shows a more tactile hands on way of photography. With handling sensitive dark room paper, and especially for photograms, placing items on the paper in the dark and exposing it to light. This gives a chance of experimenting with different items, light and time. Man Ray explored techniques in the dark room numerous of times and came up with the name 'rayograms' with experimenting in the darkroom, it gives me many opportunties to develop ideas.  It is very much a more traditional way of photography, on the other hand can be quite raw in how the image turns out.

The following links lead to my own attempts of photograms and the experiments I completed:
Photograms