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 |
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1906- |
Gyorgy Kepes |
1930s, 70s |
Silver-gelatin |
Hungarian |
Theodore Roszak |
1930s |
Silver-gelatin |
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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 |
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1955- |
Susan Derges |
1980s, 1990s |
Silver-gelatin |
British |
Eva Shaderowsky |
1990s |
Silver-gelatin |
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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 |