The Photogram - a History

The following table lists selected photographers and artists that have empoyed the photogram using a variety of processes.

Dates of Artist Lifetime

              Artist

Approximate period of producing photograms

Processes Used

Nationality

1687-1744

Johann Henrich Schultze

1727

Gypsum/silver nitrate

German

1771-1805

Thomas Wedgewood

1790s

Silver nitrate/pottery

English

1800-1877

William Fox Talbot

1830s

Silver nitrate/Sodium and potassium iodide / POP

English

1801-1887

Hippolyte Bayard

1830s, 1840s

direct positive cyanotype

French

1799-1871

Anna Atkins

1850s

cyanotype

British

1806-1862 Rev. John Wheeley Gough Gutch 1850s salt prints British
  Amelia Bergner 1870s chromate-based print out paper American

1895-1946

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

1920s, 1930s

Silver-gelatin

Hungarian (worked in Germany and U.S.)

1899-1986

Ralph Steiner

1920s +

Silver-gelatin

American

1894-1962

Christian Schad

1919,1920s, 1930s

Silver-gelatin

German

1890 -1976

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky)

1920s

Silver-gelatin

American (worked in Paris, France)

1900-1985

Herbert Bayer

1930s -

Silver-gelatin

German

1896-1990

Lotte Jacobi

1930s, 1940s

Silver-gelatin

1901-1988

Carlotta Carpron

1940s, 1950s

Silver-gelatin

American

1903-1975

Walker Evans

1930s

Silver-gelatin

American

1886-1971

Raoul Hausmann

1930s, 40s,50s

Silver-gelatin

Austrian

1887-1948

Kurt Schwitters

1930s, 1940s

Silver-gelatin

German

1918-1996 Ernst Eduard Friedrich Schwitters 1932-1934 Silver-gelatin German (lived in Norway)

1890-1941

Eli Lissitzky

1920s

Silver-gelatin

Russian

1905-1999

Frederick Summer

1940s, 1950s

Silver-gelatin

1931-2006

Robert Heineken

1960s, 1970s

Silver-gelatin, Cibachrome

American

1891-1956

Alexander Rodchenko

1930s, 40s, 50s

Silver-gelatin

Russian

Arthur Siegel

1940s

Silver-gelatin

1906-

Gyorgy Kepes

1930s, 70s

Silver-gelatin

Hungarian

Theodore Roszak

1930s

Silver-gelatin

1915-

Nathan Lerner

1940s

Silver-gelatin

American

1900-1992

Barbara Morgan

1940s

Silver-gelatin

American

1914-2005 Théodore Brauner 1922-, 1940s-2005 Silver-gelatin, brown tones German
1911-1960 Ei Kyu (Ei Q) 1930s Silver-gelatin Japanese
   
   
   
1887-1949 Curtis Moffat 1920s, 1930s three color gelatin pigment, silver-gelatin American

1896-1945

Jaromir Funke

Silver-gelatin

Czechoslovakian

1890-1965

Franz Roh

1927-1933

Silver-gelatin

German

1949- Michael Spano 1960+ Silver-gelatin American

1937-

Floris Michael Neususs

1957 +

Silver-gelatin

German

1938-

Thomas Barrow

1960s +

Silver-gelatin

American

1947-

Les Rudnick

1960s +

Silver-gelatin

American

1949-

Susan Rankaitis

1970s +

Silver-gelatin

American

1961-

Adam Fuss

1980s +

Silver-gelatin

British

1965-

Jayne Hinds Bidaut

1990s

Silver-gelatin

American

1942-

Kunie Sugiura

1990s,2000s

Silver-gelatin

Japanese

Zeva Oelbaum

cyanotype

1955-

Susan Derges

1980s, 1990s

Silver-gelatin

British

Eva Shaderowsky

1990s

Silver-gelatin

Marco Breuer

1990s

Silver-gelatin

German

1957-

Christopher Bucklow

1990s

Silver-gelatin

British

1904-1997

Marcel Bovis

Silver-gelatin

German

1958-

Anne Barnard

1990s

Silver-gelatin + toners

France

         
  Don Dudenbostel 1990s, 2000s Silver-gelatin American
  Steven N. Meyers late 1990s, 2000s Silver-gelatin American
  Bert Myers 1990s, 2000s Silver-gelatin + toners American
1945- Judith K. MacMillian late 1990s, 2000s Silver-gelatin + toners American
         
         
         
         
         


 

 

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