Markus Amm - Contemporary Artists

Untitled

The Saatchi Gallery
 

Markus Amm

Untitled

1999
Photogram on fiber based paper

24 x 18 cm

In his Untitled series, Markus Amm revives the technique of the photogram. Pioneered as an art form by Man Ray and Moholy Nagy (the latter of which coined the term "photogram"), the process utilises rudimentary photograph principles: objects are placed on a photosensitive surface, and briefly exposed to light to create an abstracted "x-ray" image, an inverted shadow outline of suggestive form.
 
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