Word: photograms
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...actual process as a means of bringing the outside world into abstraction. His photograms—prints created sans negative, by placing objects directly on photosensitive material—resemble a cross between the line and drips of Pollock and the intertwining strands of a DNA molecule. In his photogram from the series “Details of Love” (1992), childlike and uneven multi-colored (but predominantly black) squiggles dance around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines, as it turns out, are no product of innocence, but are the result...
...objects--rocks, feathers, tarnish rubbings. She combines these materials in ways that are often stunning visually, and, at the same time, she uses them as a means of making associations and narratives. She says that she is intrigued by Freud's theory of the unconscious and has made a photogram of a white feather that came from the pillow on the infamous couch. The feather is associated with slumber, slumber with dreams, dreams with the unconscious and then we're back again at Freud. Parker often takes us on these wonderful little loops. She strings these narratives and chains...
Charles Platt '54 contributed a photogram, an interesting composition made by the application of chemicals to sensitized paper. His lithograph, "Tension" is peculiarly lacking in tension and his oils are ineffectual. Dudley Uphoff '55 is represented by eight oils which are in the Impressionist style. They lack imagination and care in execution, if not in the actual application of paint. Two of his landscapes are pleasant at a distance of fifty feet...
...telephotograph is a Bell Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
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