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  InMan Ray

  or photograms, which he calledrayographs. He made them by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper, which he exposed to light and developed. In 1922 a book of his collected rayographs,Les Champs délicieux (“The Delightful Fields”), was published, with an introduction by the influential Dada artist Tristan Tzara, who…

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history of photography

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  Inhistory of photography: Experimental approaches

  …artist Man Ray, whose “rayographs,” photographs that appeared as series of swirling abstract shapes, were created without a camera by exposing objects placed on sensitized paper to light.

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type of photogram

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  Inphotogram

  …Ray, who called his photogramsrayographs, applied the contact-exposure technique to motion-picture making as well.

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