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Wikipedia Reference:
Emmanuel Radnitzky (aka Man Ray) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Born on August 27, 1890, he was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, and produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer as well as his work with photograms, which he called "rayo-graphs" in reference to himself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray
Though Man Ray was a leading force in making photograms more commercial through his own work, he was not the only nor the first person to do them. Originally artists such as Hippolyte Bayard and William Henry Fox Talbot were the founders of photography and photograms in the 1800s, Man Ray's work being done in early 1900's. 'Rayo-graphs' were photograms, and the name 'Rayo-graphs' was a figment of Man Ray's arrogance that he used in reference to his own style of photography.
How to Make Them - A Rayograph (or photogram) is made by making a print in a photolab without using a camera. By placing objects on top of a piece of light sensitive paper in the dark room, you can use an enlarger to cast light onto the paper and capture the sihouettes of the objects chosen to create an interesting 'photogram'.
What is needed -
Objects of your choice
Sheets of light sensitive photo paper
An enlarger
Complete darkness
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