photogram
noun
pho·to·gram
ˈfō-tə-ˌgram 
: a photographic image made by placing objects between light-sensitive paper and a light source
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An exhibition hosted by A-Poc Able Issey Miyake, featuring a series of photograms by contemporary artist Eugene Kangawa, plus new textiles inspired by them, will take place during Art Basel Paris, running Oct. 24 to 26.
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Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2025
Painted on photograms and dialogue-free, Toccafondo’s latest film plays as a fairy tale about a voice more soft and seductive than any that had come before.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
With their photograms, Broomberg and Chanarin found a new, unexpected, but no less emotional way of doing so.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
My focus has been these cyanotype photograms and also kind of playing around with a couple of different chemistries, but still with the concept of going diving, collecting material, and bringing it back to the studio and printing it physically using that as the image-making material.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
Included in both the book and exhibition are photograms in the Man Ray tradition—the jumbled silhouettes of physical objects exposed to light on photographic paper—and chemigrams, splashes of chemicals on photo paper that suggest volcanic eruptions or brain wave.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
In the 15 or so years since those first happy accidents, Robertson has honed her practice of camera-less photography, creating ferocious photograms with explosions of pigment that slingshot you to another dimension.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
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Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2025
Painted on photograms and dialogue-free, Toccafondo’s latest film plays as a fairy tale about a voice more soft and seductive than any that had come before.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
With their photograms, Broomberg and Chanarin found a new, unexpected, but no less emotional way of doing so.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
My focus has been these cyanotype photograms and also kind of playing around with a couple of different chemistries, but still with the concept of going diving, collecting material, and bringing it back to the studio and printing it physically using that as the image-making material.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
Included in both the book and exhibition are photograms in the Man Ray tradition—the jumbled silhouettes of physical objects exposed to light on photographic paper—and chemigrams, splashes of chemicals on photo paper that suggest volcanic eruptions or brain wave.
—Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
In the 15 or so years since those first happy accidents, Robertson has honed her practice of camera-less photography, creating ferocious photograms with explosions of pigment that slingshot you to another dimension.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
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“Photogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photogram. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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