Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
György Kepes
Compass and Strainer Photogram
(n.d)
Tate
© estate of György Kepes (Imre Kepes and Juliet Kepes Stone)
The technique of creating photographic prints without using a camera (photograms) is as old as photography itself – but emerged again in various avant-garde contexts in the early 1920s.
Artist Man Ray refined and personalised the technique to such an extent that the new prints eventually carried his name ‘rayographs’.