SB1 - Darkroom research - Photograms

A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. This photographic technique is an alternative way of creating cameraless photographs. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey. 

Schad's new imagery was constructed by taking discarded unimportant objects and arranging them. The photograms created from these arrangements had taken on a new form and meaning not considered previously. His photograms are referred to as ‘Schadographs’. He preferred worn materials, such as scraps of paper and bits of fabric, often searching for these things on the streets and in garbage cans. Schad frequently extended his assault on artistic tradition by cutting a jagged border around the Schadographs, "to free them," as he explained, "from the convention of the square."








http://www.ucarochester-photography.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/The-Photogram.pdf