photographs

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As old as the invention of photography, rayographs—negative, silhouetted photographic prints made by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper—are more commonly known as photograms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Borrowing a full-length silhouette of his body from a gallery announcement for his 1975 show of photograms, “Angels,” she slyly transformed his outlines into a frame or container for her cut-up photographs.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

The cyanotypes and photograms are the closest things to representational works in the show, and they’re deliberately cryptic and detached.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

Her “Landscape Portraits,” for instance, are ravishing, the latest in a series of photograms made by placing thin sheets of wood veneer on photo-sensitive paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2020

If she’d been in the Jordan College Retiring Room when Lord Asriel had projected the photograms he’d made with the special emulsion, she would have recognized the effect.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman