PHOTOGRAM

shadowlike photographic image made by placing opaque, translucent, or transparent objects between light-sensitive paper or film and a light source; exposing the assemblage to light; and developing the latent image on the paper. The artistic potential of the photogram was extensively exploited during the 1920s. The Swiss photographer Christian Schad, the Hungarian-born painter-photographer Lszl Moholy-Nagy, and the American expatriate Surrealist Man Ray were the medium's chief proponents. Ray, whose photograms are known as rayographs, applied the contact-exposure technique to motion-picture making as well.